WILLIAM H. (BUD) HODGES
 

Funeral for William H. (Bud) Hodges, 82, of Wells was at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the O.T. Allen & Son Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Jim Maddox officiating. Burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Mr. Hodges died Saturday. He was born April 11, 1925, in Cherokee County to James E. and Edna L. Chandler Hodges. He lived most of his life in the Wells area and was a Pentecostal. He last attended the Living Water Church in Wells. He owned and operated Hodges Logging with his son for more than 30 years and also worked as a welder at Lufkin Industries for 16 years. He was a U.S. Army veteran and received two purple hearts for his service while in Germany. He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Mary Lou Vinson, Edna (Babe) Goodwin and Barbara Sue Church; and a son-in-law, Garland Parise.

Survivors are his wife of 65 years, Pauline Hodges of Wells; two daughters and a son-in law, Ann and James Barron of Alto and Alice Parise of Lufkin; three sons and two daughters in law, W. C. (Dub) and JoAnn Hodges, Harvey and Glenda Hodges and Arnold Ray Hodges, all of Wells; two brothers and sisters-in-law, James (Bo) and Trudy Hodges and Charles (Nunk) and Sara Hodges, all of Wells; 15 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; a special sister-in-law and her husband, Linda and Johnny Woodard of Nacogdoches; a special nephew and his wife, Johnny Ray and Glenda Goodwin of DeQuincy, La.

Grandsons were pallbearers and great-grandsons honorary pallbearers.

November 7, 2007

Information from The Cherokeean Herald