Graveside services for Norma Alford Hodges will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Dr. W.S. Simmons Memorial Cemetery in Progress, Miss. with the Rev. David Gilbert officiating. Robert Barham Family Funeral Home in Meridian is in charge of arrangements. Ms. Hodges, 82, died Sept. 27, 2009, at Oasis Health and Rehabilitation in Yazoo City. She was born April 1, 1927, in Magnolia, Miss. After graduating from Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus in 1947, she taught Modern Dance, P.E. and Health for 35 years at Meridian Junior College and Meridian High School. She was active in teaching Swimming, Senior Aerobics and Senior Water Aerobics at Meridian Community College and privately for many years. She had waterfront at Camp Chattooga in Tallulah Falls, Ga. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Meridian. Survivors include her daughter, Sheila Hodges McKie and her husband, Ed, of Yazoo City; grandson, Hoover McKie of Starkville; brothers, Howard W. Alford of McComb and George A. Alford of Richland; and half-sister Lucy Alford Hull of DeKalb. She was preceded in death by her former husband, Billy Hodges; and her parents, Luke W. Alford and Lura W. Alford. The family requests memorials be made to Camp Chattooga, PO Box 70, Tallulah Falls, Ga. 30573. Pallbearers will be Hollis Alford, Howard Alford, Hoover McKie, Bob Simmons, Buddy Simmons and Rex Simmons. Visitation will be today, from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Published in The Meridian Star on 9/30/2009
In Celebration of MHS Class of 1958
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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