Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Hodges, J. Lester, 1949
Sunday, July 16, 2000

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    Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                 Name of paper not given

                  J. Lester Hodges Funeral Rites Are Held Here Friday

  Funeral services for James Lester Hodges, 59, well known business man, who died Thursday
afternoon, September 1st in a San Antonio hospital, were held Friday afternoon at 5:30
o'clock from the Hodges Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. James B. Jordan, Methodist
minister, officiating.  Burial was made in the Junction Cemetery.
  Hodges, who was associated with The Hodges Co., had been in the hospital only four days
but had been ill in his home several weeks.  Until recently, however, he had been at his
place in the store where he had worked continuously during the past 25 years.
  Except for three years as Junction postmaster from 1915 to 1918 and the seven succeeding
years ranching in Edwards County, he worked altogether in the store which his father, the 
late J. N. Hodges established and served as co-owner and manager, known as the Schreiner-
Hodges Co. but after the death of the manager, was called the Hodges Co.
  A native of Bandera, Hodges was born January 31, 1890, and came to Kimble with his parents
in 1907.  On March 3rd, 1911, he was married to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Corder, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Corder, here, with the late John S. Durst performing the ceremony.  The
youngest of their four children, Glenn, an officer in the Air Corps, died in action on
January 24, 1944.
  An integral part of the business firm which has expanded in recent years to include a
modern funeral home as well as the grocery and dry goods store, Hodges will be missed in the
business circles of the town and among his many friends and relative.
  He will also be remembered for his activities in the development of the town.  At the time
the new high school building was erected, he was serving as secretary of the Junction
School Board.
  Survivors include the widow; one son, James Lester, Jr. of Cleveland, Texas; two daughters,
Mrs. W. G. Elzner of San Antonio and Mrs. Harry Bundy of Boerne; three grandchildren, James
Lester, III and Hughetta Kay Hodges and Blair Bundy; and four sisters, Mrs. Mabel Hodges,
Mrs. Clay Secrest, Mrs. Mattie Patterson and Mrs. Dorothy Westmoreland.
  Pall bearers included S. O. Durst, John Phillips, Frank Patterson, Alton Mason, A. C. Hurte,
Tom Wilson, J. M. Livingston and Dr. H. E. Wright.
  Among those from out-of-town here for the services were Mr. and Mrs. James Hodges and 
children; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Elzner, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bundy and Blair; Mr. and Mrs.
Everett Epperson, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Corder, Alonzo Cowsert, J. L. Epperson and Mrs. Thomas
Glasscock, all of Rocksprings; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Corder, Brady; Mrs. E. B. Hodges and Mrs.
Horace Goodrich, Center Point; Harold Walder, Evant; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wallace, Mrs.
Ollie Hodges and Mrs. Russell Hendricks, Rufus Hodges, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Flocke, Jr.,
all of San Antonio; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Boerm of Palestine; Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Rugh of
Bandera; Mr. and Mrs. Pat Wooten of College Station and Mrs. W. W. Stotler of Corpus Christi.
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