December 30, 1925 - January 20, 2022
The services celebrating and honoring the life of Caroline V. Hodgden, 96, of Enid, will be 2:00 P.M. Tuesday January 25, 2022, in the St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church with Father John Herrera officiating.
Caroline was born December 30, 1925, to Lawrence and Caroline (Stoddard) Myers in Alamosa, Colorado and passed from this life January 21, 2022 in Enid, Oklahoma. She was raised and educated in Alamosa and Walsenberg Colorado and attended high school in Denver graduating with the class of 1942. She attended Kansas State University where she met the love of her life, Jack Hodgden, 1st Lieutenant in the Army, when he was stationed at Ft Riley, before he shipped out to D-Day World War ll. They met on a blind date. The couple was married September 1, 1945, in Denver, Colorado. They moved to Enid, Oklahoma in 1946 where she attended Phillips University and achieved her bachelor’s and master’s degree in education. She taught 1st grade at Garfield Elementary in Enid and enjoyed it greatly. She was a voracious reader. She loved to knit, making sweaters for her grandchildren, and later in life, hats for a ministry of the Cathedral in Santa Fe to cancer patients and veterans. She was a member of St Gregory the Great Catholic church where she was a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Club. She and Jack loved to collect antiques, travel, and spend time at their home in Santa Fe. She was excellent riding horses, and rode into her late 80’s. She was always up for an adventure, learning to ski in her seventies, and even hiking up a mountain. She was very positive and gracious, never complaining. She was always very proud of her sons, as well as her grands and greats. And supportive of the many various activities they were all involved in.
She is survived by her sons, Larry and Rhoda Hodgden and Mike and Martha Hodgden; seven grandchildren, Jeff and his wife Julie, Jack and his wife Jessica, Wiley and his wife Hannah, Heather Dunlap, Paul, David, John; 14 great- grandchildren; 3 great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband Jack and brother Lawrence Myers, and her parents. Memorials may be made in her honor the Our Daily Bread with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
Condolences may be made to the family online at www.Brown-Cummings.com. As one of Oklahomaʼs oldest single family owned and operated providers of funerals and cremations, Brown-Cummings is the name families have turned to for generations. They fully understand the honor and responsibility entrusted to them to preserve the story of oneʼs life. Visit 400 W. Maple, Enid, OK 73701. Call: (580) 237-5432.
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