Friday, April 01, 2005
Bill Hodges services set for Monday at 1:07 pm
Funeral services for Bill Royce Hodges, age 60 of Apache and a former Clinton resident, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Meacham Memorial Chapel of the First Baptist Church in Clinton with Terry Books officiating.
Hodges died Thursday, March 31, 2005. He was born on Jan. 26, 1945.
A 1963 graduate of Clinton High School, he served in the U.S. Army as a combat radio communications operator at Fort Meade, Md.
He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in education and history at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
Hodges went on to teach special education at Broxton near Apache where his services expanded to include coaching high school girls basketball and serving for several years as junior-senior sponsor.
Later, he moved to Wewoka and continued teaching until his retirement. He liked to recount some of the senior trips he sponsored. He retired in May of 2000.
Hodges enjoyed traveling between his Wewoka and Apache homes and visiting relatives in Clinton as well as Phoenix, Ariz., Waldport, Ore., Red River, N.M., Germany and Greece.
Other interests included deep-sea fishing, crabbing, fresh water fishing and mountain hiking. He took a lot of interest in his nephews, nieces and great nephews and nieces.
Preceding him in death, along with his parents, Velma and Carlos Hodges, was a stepmother, Tots Erwin Hodges.
Burial will conclude in the Clinton Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.'
Survivors include a sister, Carla Cruson, and her husband, Gary, of Clinton; two brothers, David Hodges and his wife, Susan, of Clinton, Riley Hodges and his wife, Lee, of Phoenix, Ariz.; nephews and nieces, Sharon, Carolyn and Kyla Hodges, Cindy, Alex, Vessie and Orestes Trigas, Kendy and Bailey Cox and Cooper, Chance and Conner Cruson.
Bill Hodges services set for Monday at 1:07 pm
Funeral services for Bill Royce Hodges, age 60 of Apache and a former Clinton resident, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Meacham Memorial Chapel of the First Baptist Church in Clinton with Terry Books officiating.
Hodges died Thursday, March 31, 2005. He was born on Jan. 26, 1945.
A 1963 graduate of Clinton High School, he served in the U.S. Army as a combat radio communications operator at Fort Meade, Md.
He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in education and history at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
Hodges went on to teach special education at Broxton near Apache where his services expanded to include coaching high school girls basketball and serving for several years as junior-senior sponsor.
Later, he moved to Wewoka and continued teaching until his retirement. He liked to recount some of the senior trips he sponsored. He retired in May of 2000.
Hodges enjoyed traveling between his Wewoka and Apache homes and visiting relatives in Clinton as well as Phoenix, Ariz., Waldport, Ore., Red River, N.M., Germany and Greece.
Other interests included deep-sea fishing, crabbing, fresh water fishing and mountain hiking. He took a lot of interest in his nephews, nieces and great nephews and nieces.
Preceding him in death, along with his parents, Velma and Carlos Hodges, was a stepmother, Tots Erwin Hodges.
Burial will conclude in the Clinton Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.'
Survivors include a sister, Carla Cruson, and her husband, Gary, of Clinton; two brothers, David Hodges and his wife, Susan, of Clinton, Riley Hodges and his wife, Lee, of Phoenix, Ariz.; nephews and nieces, Sharon, Carolyn and Kyla Hodges, Cindy, Alex, Vessie and Orestes Trigas, Kendy and Bailey Cox and Cooper, Chance and Conner Cruson.
Friday, April 01, 2005
Bill Hodges services set for Monday at 1:07 pm
Funeral services for Bill Royce Hodges, age 60 of Apache and a former Clinton resident, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Meacham Memorial Chapel of the First Baptist Church in Clinton with Terry Books officiating.
Hodges died Thursday, March 31, 2005. He was born on Jan. 26, 1945.
A 1963 graduate of Clinton High School, he served in the U.S. Army as a combat radio communications operator at Fort Meade, Md.
He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in education and history at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
Hodges went on to teach special education at Broxton near Apache where his services expanded to include coaching high school girls basketball and serving for several years as junior-senior sponsor.
Later, he moved to Wewoka and continued teaching until his retirement. He liked to recount some of the senior trips he sponsored. He retired in May of 2000.
Hodges enjoyed traveling between his Wewoka and Apache homes and visiting relatives in Clinton as well as Phoenix, Ariz., Waldport, Ore., Red River, N.M., Germany and Greece.
Other interests included deep-sea fishing, crabbing, fresh water fishing and mountain hiking. He took a lot of interest in his nephews, nieces and great nephews and nieces.
Preceding him in death, along with his parents, Velma and Carlos Hodges, was a stepmother, Tots Erwin Hodges.
Burial will conclude in the Clinton Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.'
Survivors include a sister, Carla Cruson, and her husband, Gary, of Clinton; two brothers, David Hodges and his wife, Susan, of Clinton, Riley Hodges and his wife, Lee, of Phoenix, Ariz.; nephews and nieces, Sharon, Carolyn and Kyla Hodges, Cindy, Alex, Vessie and Orestes Trigas, Kendy and Bailey Cox and Cooper, Chance and Conner Cruson.
Bill Hodges services set for Monday at 1:07 pm
Funeral services for Bill Royce Hodges, age 60 of Apache and a former Clinton resident, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Meacham Memorial Chapel of the First Baptist Church in Clinton with Terry Books officiating.
Hodges died Thursday, March 31, 2005. He was born on Jan. 26, 1945.
A 1963 graduate of Clinton High School, he served in the U.S. Army as a combat radio communications operator at Fort Meade, Md.
He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in education and history at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
Hodges went on to teach special education at Broxton near Apache where his services expanded to include coaching high school girls basketball and serving for several years as junior-senior sponsor.
Later, he moved to Wewoka and continued teaching until his retirement. He liked to recount some of the senior trips he sponsored. He retired in May of 2000.
Hodges enjoyed traveling between his Wewoka and Apache homes and visiting relatives in Clinton as well as Phoenix, Ariz., Waldport, Ore., Red River, N.M., Germany and Greece.
Other interests included deep-sea fishing, crabbing, fresh water fishing and mountain hiking. He took a lot of interest in his nephews, nieces and great nephews and nieces.
Preceding him in death, along with his parents, Velma and Carlos Hodges, was a stepmother, Tots Erwin Hodges.
Burial will conclude in the Clinton Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.'
Survivors include a sister, Carla Cruson, and her husband, Gary, of Clinton; two brothers, David Hodges and his wife, Susan, of Clinton, Riley Hodges and his wife, Lee, of Phoenix, Ariz.; nephews and nieces, Sharon, Carolyn and Kyla Hodges, Cindy, Alex, Vessie and Orestes Trigas, Kendy and Bailey Cox and Cooper, Chance and Conner Cruson.
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