Obituary

Hodges, Leo Preston
TULIA- Funeral services for Leo Hodges, 77, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Wallace Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Rusty Gray, pastor of Tulia Christian Fellowship Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Parklawn Memorial Gardens in Plainview by Wallace Funeral Home.
Mr. Hodges died at 5:35 a.m. Wednesday, May 1, 1996, in Prairie House Living Center in Plainview.
He was born Sept. 4, 1918, in Comanche County. He grew up in Sweetwater and served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
He lived in Lamesa for three years before moving to Brownfield in 1950 where he worked for Piggly-Wiggly Grocers as a butcher for 11 years. He moved to Levelland in 1961 and owned and operated Leo?s Drive-In and in 1975 bought the A-Z Tot Shop.
He retired from the retail clothing store business in 1983. He moved to Plainview in 1990 and had lived in Tulia for the last 18 months.
He married Jackie Watts on April 3, 1946, in Lubbock.
Survivors include his wife; one daughter, Debbie Huckeby of Tulia; two sons, Randy Hodges of Lubbock and Gary Hodges of Trinidad, West Indies; five sisters, Annie Dunn of Snyder, Opal Bonner of Midlothian, Estelle Erwin of Gorman, Vaudean Everheart of Bowie and Margie Norred of Snyder; two brothers, Joe Hodges of Eastland and Bobby Hodges of Mabank; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Plainview Daily Herald?May 1, 1996