Mary Etta Hodges

October 11, 1929 - February 12, 2018

Funeral services for Mary Etta Hodges will be held Friday, February 16, 2018 at 2:00 PM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Okemah. Interment will follow at the Rock Creek Cemetery in Okemah. Mary Etta Hodges was born October 11, 1929 in Weleetka, Oklahoma to Lee Henderson and Flossie (Pruitt) Henderson. She passed away Monday, February 12, 2018 in Okemah at the age of 88. Mary was a longtime resident of the Okemah area and worked many years as a nursing home cook with the Okemah Pioneer Nursing Home. She is preceded in death by her husband, Gurney Hodges, her parents, Lee and Flossie Henderson, three brothers, three sisters, two grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Survivors include her two sons, Gurney Curtis Hodges of Bearden and Jamie Wayne Hodges of Colorado Springs, Colorado; four daughters, Linda Nichols and husband Lawrence of Florence, Colorado, Sandy Bogle and husband Harold of Welty, Oklahoma, Brenda White and husband Eddie of Castle and Ginger Nichols and husband Butch of Okemah; three brothers, Cleve, Bill and Harold Henderson of Bakersfield, California; one sister, Kat Huskey of Preston, Oklahoma; 13 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Serving as pallbearers are Jerry Bogle, Jimmie Nichols, Curt Nichols, P.R. Martin, Dusty Hodges and Caleb Vaught. Services will be under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Home, Okemah, Oklahoma and officiated by Rev. David Shatwell and Rev. Thomas Wallace.