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Show ! Pioneer Father of Local ' Woman Dies at Beaver j- Funeral, services for Fred I Hodges, 72, prominent Beaver resident, who died last Wednesday ; after a short illness following a ' paralytic) stroke, yere conducted tSunday at . 2 p.m. in the Beaver ! L. D. S. West ward chapel under : direction of C. Edwin Paice, bishop. Mr. Hodges was the father fa-ther of Mrs. J. Al Kirk of Milford. j Burial took place in Mountain :View cemetery, directed by the j Southern Utah Funeral home. Mr. Hodges was born July 24, 1869, in West Brambwich, Stafford, Staf-ford, England, a son of Henry j Charles and Selena Hunt Hodges. In 1879 he came with his parents and three brothers to Utah as j L. D. S. converts. They settled in ; St. George and later moved to Beaver. j He married Lottie Limb October : 3, 1894, at Beaver, where they made their home. Mrs. Hodges !died October 31, 1939. Mr. Hodges had engaged in mining, railroad-, railroad-, ing and stock raising. I Eight of his 13 sons and daugh-1 daugh-1 ters, in addition to Mrs. Kirk, 'survive: Mrs. John Munger of Los 'Angeles, California; Mrs. Glen Dixon, Berkeley, California; Mrs. : K. A. Lowe, Panola, California; Mrs. A. G. Twitchell, Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Mrs. Victor ! Littlefield, Mrs. Henry Willeson, L&Mar and Ray Hodges all of j Beaver. |