CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Mamie B. Hodge, 30 Mar 2005
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Mamie B. Hodge, Marion Branch Road, Elizabethton, went to be with her Lord
Wednesday, March 30, 2005, at Johnson City Medical Center after a short
illness.

Mrs. Hodge was a native of Old Butler and a daughter of the late Martin and
Eva Strickland Lunceford. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in
death by her first husband, Worley Birchfield, a daughter, Georgia Mae
Birchfield, and two brothers, Bill and Joe Atwood. 

Mrs. Hodge was a member of Zion Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband of 54 years, Clyde M. Hodge; two sons and
daughters-in-law, Wayne and Wanda Birchfield, Hampton, and Floyd and Kim
Hodge, Buda, Texas; two daughters and sons-in-law, Helen and Gene Renfro and
Lynn and Bill Haynes, all of Johnson City; seven grandchildren, Crystal
Flores, Johnson City, Chris Birchfield, Hampton, Gene Renfro, Johnson City,
Paul and Matthew Hodge, both of Buda, Texas, Meredith Haynes and Alison
Haynes, both of Johnson City; two great-grandchildren, McKinnley and Gentry
Self, both of Johnson City; six half sisters, Dorothy Reece and Margaret
Campbell, both of Butler, Jean Perkins and Lois Lathrop, both of DeKalb, Ill.,
Jean Hisle and Frances Mills, both of Richmond, Ky.; three half brothers, Earl
Atwood, Mountain City, Bob Atwood, Hampton, and Ray Lunceford, Richmond, Ky.
Several nieces and nephews also survive.

Survivors include her husband of 54 years, Clyde M. Hodge; two sons and
daughters-in-law, Wayne and Wanda Birchfield, Hampton, and Floyd and Kim
Hodge, Buda, Texas; two daughters and sons-in-law, Helen and Gene Renfro and
Lynn and Bill Haynes, all of Johnson City; seven grandchildren, Crystal
Flores, Johnson City, Chris Birchfield, Hampton, Gene Renfro, Johnson City,
Paul and Matthew Hodge, both of Buda, Texas, Meredith Haynes and Alison
Haynes, both of Johnson City; two great-grandchildren, McKinnley and Gentry
Self, both of Johnson City; six half sisters, Dorothy Reece and Margaret
Campbell, both of Butler, Jean Perkins and Lois Lathrop, both of DeKalb, Ill.,
Jean Hisle and Frances Mills, both of Richmond, Ky.; three half brothers, Earl
Atwood, Mountain City, Bob Atwood, Hampton, and Ray Lunceford, Richmond, Ky.
Several nieces and nephews also survive.

Funeral services for Mrs. Hodge will be conducted at 8 p.m. Friday, April 2,
at Memorial Funeral Chapel with the Rev. C.W. Snodgrass and the Rev. Harold
Campbell officiating, Graveside services and interment will be at 11:30 a.m.
Saturday, April 2, at Happy Valley Memorial Park with the Rev. Ronnie Campbell
officiating. Music will be provided by Crystal Flores, Zion Baptist Church
Choir and the Zion Baptist Church Quartet. Active pallbearers, who are
requested to assemble at the funeral home at 11 a.m. Saturday, will be
grandsons: Chris Birchfield, Gene Renfro and Matthew Hodge and Bruce Hall,
Willie McVey, Teddy Greenwell, Chet Bageant, Doug Bogart and Ray Loveless.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of Zion Baptist Church, Terry Whitehead,
Ralph Barnett, Norman and Wilma Anderson, Olen Pate, Richard Arnett, Larry
Honeycutt, L.D. Berry, Jeter Hale, Ralph Williams, Marvin Patton, Bill
Crumley, the nursing staff of Johnson City Medical Center and employees of
Life Care Center of Elizabethton. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8
p.m. Friday at the funeral chapel. Friends may also call at the residence.
Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 11 a.m. Saturday to go
to the cemetery. Condolences to the Hodge family may be e-mailed to
mfc@chartertn.net.

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