HODGES FAMILY NOTEBOOK
This is the unedited research and genealogical collection of Geneva
Suggs Swain donated by her cousin Carroll Ray Ellis.
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. Funeral services
for Morris Hodges, 67, were conducted Monday at 15 Mile Free Will Baptist
Church in Sterling Heights: Burial was in Christian Memorial Cultural Gardens
Cemetery, Rochester.
Mr. Hodges died Friday night
at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak following an illness of several
weeks.
Mr. Hodges was born in Montgomery
County son of the late Walter and Callie Ferrell Hodges, but had lived
in Michigan about 29 years. He was a retired employee of P. I. E. Trucking
Company in Detroit.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs.
Lorna Hodges; six daughters, Mrs. Edward Frasure, Troy, Mich.: Mrs. John
Clark, Royal Oak: Mrs. Charles Mays, Berkley, Mich.; Mrs. Donald Gibson,
Prestue Isle, Mich.; Mrs. Andrew Kilmek and Mrs. Anita Diebold, Southfield:
six brothers. Douglas, Shiloh, Tenn.; Clyde, Westland, Mich.; Claudie,
Detroit; Calvin and Walter Hodges Jr., Cunningham, Tenn.; Lonnie Hodges,
Cumberland Furnace, Route 2; a sister, Mrs. Claude (Lucille) Potts, Southside,
Tenn.; 15 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren.
He was a charter member of the
15 Mile Free Will Baptist Church.
Submitted by Sandra Stacey