Jean Hodges, 71, went to be with her Lord on Wednesday, September 2, 2015.
Jean was born on November 22, 1943, to Joseph and Lula (Davis) Prasifka in Dallas, Texas. She grew up in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Pleasant Grove High School. On April 12, 1961, she married Donnie A. Hodges and they made their home in Dallas before moving to Ennis in 1968.
She worked for Storey Manufacturing as a seamstress and for Ennis ISD as a cook. She was a member of the Jesus Name Church. She loved to cook which she was wonderful at. She enjoyed spending time in God’s Word, going to church, listening and singing gospel music, writing, and loved being with her children.
She will be missed by all those who were blessed to know her and her memory will be cherished by her family including three sons: Donnie Hodges, John Hodges and Will Hodges; daughters: Marie Gattis and husband, Lee, Cheryl Love and husband, Jerry, Barbara Stanger and husband, Steve, Rachel Davis and husband Lonnie and Rebekah Lee and husband Sejin; nineteen grandchildren: fourteen great-grandchildren: sister, Betty Sue Copeland along with a host of other family, friends and church family.
She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Donnie Hodges on November 18, 2007, one brother, Donald Gene Prasifka and one sister, Rosetta Copeland.
Visitation will be held on Friday, September 4, 2015, from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the J.E. Keever Mortuary of Ennis.
A Celebration of her life will take place on Saturday, September 5, 2015, at 1 p.m. in the J.E. Keever Mortuary Chapel of Ennis with Rev. Olan Ray Raney officiating. Interment will follow in the Myrtle Cemetery under the direction of J.E. Keever Mortuary, Inc.
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