Biography of Corinne Hodges, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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Miss Corinne Hodges, is editor of the Crowley Ridge Chronicle, and is widely
known feature writer of the Mid-South, and contributor to farm and religious
publications. She has written hundreds of articles about St. Francis County and
its people, and has been published. She started in the newspaper business in
Oklahoma City, Okla., with The Daily Oklahoman, then the Times-Press, in Akron,
Ohio. During World War I she was in the publications division of the Censorship
at San Antonio, Texas; later, served as the first Editor of The Pulse, newspaper
of Brooke Army Medical Center, and then co-editor of the 4th Army newspaper at
Fort Sam Houston, Texas. She was the daughter of Erle Fleming Hodges and the
late Jennie Elise Holloway Hodges. Two of her ancestors were in Goodspeed's
History of Eastern Arkansas-her grandfather, Jaber Lawrence Holloway; and a
great-uncle, Asa Hodges, United States Senator, who reared her father, after the
death of his father, Capt. William Hodges of Aberdeen, Miss. Miss Hodges has a
B. A. Degree from the Univ. of Arkansas, and also attended the Univ. Of
Virginia, and short courses sponsored by the Universities of Colorado, Oklahoma,
and Tennessee. She is a member of the National League of American Pen Women;
Arkansas Newspaper Women's Assoc., and a member of the Baptist Church.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas