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DATE: FRIDAY, September 3, 1993                   TAG: 9309030277
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ROCKY MOUNT                                 LENGTH: Short


OBIT-HODGES, CECIL E. SR.

HODGES, Cecil E. Sr., 78, of Pell Avenue, Rocky Mount, died Thursday, September 2, 1993, at his home. Mr. Hodges was the owner of the Ideal Lumber Corporation, having retired in 1975, after 26 years of service. Surviving are his wife, Thelma S. Hodges of the home; one daughter and son-in-law, Nancy and Rudolph Bush, Vienna; one son and daughter-in-law, Cecil E. Jr. and Audrey R. Hodges, Rocky Mount; seven grandchildren, Cecilia Hodges, Gaithersburg, Md., Jennifer Hodges, Rocky Mount, C. E. Hodges III, Rocky Mount, Paulette Recktenwald, Fredericksburg, Patricia Purvis, Toledo, Ohio, Jeanine Bush and Jeffrey Bush, both of Vienna; three great-grandchildren; two sisters, Dorothy Brown and Lillian Wilson, both of Rocky Mount. Funeral services will be conducted 11 a.m. Saturday, September 4, 1993, at the Arrington-Bussey Funeral Chapel with Elder W. Lane Carter officiating. Burial will follow in Mountain View Memorial Park, with graveside rites by the Woodmen of the World Camp #89. The family will receive friends Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Arrington-Bussey Funeral Home, Rocky Mount.



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