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DATE: Sunday, March 3, 1996                  TAG: 9603030022
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MARY R. HODGES

Mary R. Hodges

CHESAPEAKE - Mary Rebecca Hodges, 86, died Feb. 29, 1996.

She was a native of Newport News, Va., and the widow of Willard Earl Hodges. She was a member of Jackson Memorial Baptist Church, Chesapeake. She was a Pink Lady at Maryview Medical Center and Fair Oaks Hospital, Fairfax, Va.

She is survived by two daughters, Patricia Anne Parker of Suffolk, Earlene H. Lassiter of Vienna; brother, Eugene ``Buddy'' Bryant of Hampton, Va.; four grandchildren, Robert ``Bobby'' Parker, Kathy Sue Mowrer, Denise Coleman, Louis G. Lassiter; and four great-grandchildren, Megan K. Mowrer, Jacob E. Lassiter, Kaci A. Lassiter, Matthew R. Lassiter.

A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens by the Rev. John Burr. The family will receive friends at the Sturtevant Funeral Home, Portsmouth Blvd. Chapel, today from 7 to 9 p.m.

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