Evelyn Hope Hodge

Graveside services for Evelyn Hope Hodge, 85, Ozawkie, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Mrs. Hodge died Thursday, July 11, 2002, at Village Villa Nursing Home, Nortonville.

She was born April 6, 1917, in Tarkio, Mo., the daughter of Alvie and Mattie (Swift) Belding.

Mrs. Hodge was a food-service worker at Fort Logan, Colo.

She was a member of VFW Ladies Auxiliary and Colorado Public Employees Retirement Assn.

She married William B. Hodge on May 26, 1932, in Tarkio. He died earlier.

Survivors include a daughter, Patricia Manlove, Ozawkie; a son, John Hodge, Sun City, Ariz.; a brother, Alvie Belding, Springfield, Mo.; two sisters, Mary Glasgow, St. George, Utah, and Ramona Hadl, Aurora, Mo.; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

A granddaughter died earlier.

The family will greet friends from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

The family suggests memorials to the VFW Auxiliary Bereavement Fund, sent in care of the mortuary.