{"id":7577,"date":"2017-01-22T23:55:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T05:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=7577"},"modified":"2024-10-11T18:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T23:59:46","slug":"obituary-hodge-william-e","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=7577","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Hodge, William Edward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1948_Hodge_Bill.jpg\" alt=\"William Edward Hodge\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1948<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1948 Maroon Spotlight<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1948_Hodge_Bill_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Billy Hodge\" \/><br \/>Billy Hodge<\/h2>\n<p>\ufeffFootball 45-48, Wrestling 47-48, Baseball 46-47.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1948 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<\/h2>\n<p>Bill Hodge, son of W. E. Hodge, 15 Seventh street, was born in Guthrie, but received all of his schooling in Noble county.<\/p>\n<p>He attended grade school at New Hope.  He is president of his homeroom and a member of Teen Town.  Bill has participated in football, wrestling, and baseball.<\/p>\n<p>bill says he plans to enter college following graduation here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>William Edward Hodge<\/h1>\n<h3>September 19, 1930 &#8211; October 10, 1998<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffBill Hodge, 68, former Perry Fire Chief, died at 4:30 a.m. Saturday at Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Hodge was the son of Bill and Hazel Hodge and was born in Guthrie on Sept. 19, 1930. He attended New Hope rural school and was a graduate of Perry High School.<\/p>\n<p>On June, 28, 1953, he and Shirley Curran were married in Perry.<\/p>\n<p>Hodge was a fireman for 27 years and had served as fire chief from 1973-79. He owned Western Auto from 1979-90 and Bill&#8217;s Repair Service from 1990-98.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the Perry Lions Club.<\/p>\n<p>Hodge was preceded in death by his parents.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his wife, survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Doug and Wanda Hodge, Sterling, VA; four daughters and two sons-in-law, Cindy and Drew Norlin, Norman, Denise Hodge and Becky Hodge, both of Oklahoma City, and Joan and Jerry Hayes, Perry; 11 grandchildren, one sister, Louise Lovekamp, Perry, and two brothers, Dan Hodge, Perry, and Jack Hodge, Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Tim Boggess officiating. Burial will be in Grace Hill cemetery.  Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25744,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7577\/revisions\/25744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}