Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hodges, Matilda February 11, 1954 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patricia B. Currigan currigan1932@concast.net September 13, 2023, 7:15 pm Belding Banner-News Thurs.February 18, 1954 Mother of Ten Passes Thursday After Long Illness Last rites for Mrs Matilda Hodges were conducted from the Fitzjohn Home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. H.S. Ellis officiating.Burial was in the Smyrna Cemetery. Mrs. Hodges passed away Thursday evening at the Belding City Hospital where she had been taken over a month ago for treatment. She was 78 years of age. She was born March 8,1875 at Saybrook, Ill. and was the widow of Jesse Hodges. Surviving are six daughters,Mrs.Nancy Mosher and Mrs.Ethel Runstrum, Grand Rapids, Mrs.Richard Peterman and Mrs.Gladys Kerns, Greenville, and Mrs.Lucille Taylor, Sand Lake; four sons, Arthur of Williamstown, Everett, Greenville and Lloyd and Elmer of this city; 16 grandchildren and 31 geat-grandchildren. Additional Comments: Smyrna Cem.#251 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/h/hodges46200nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb