Muriel Mariva Hodges was born in Washington, DC, the 2nd daughter of 7, and of the 8 children of George Schuyler Hodges and Agnes Idaline Bacon.
She spent her early years in France while her father studied art (he was awarded a 5-year scholarship by the French government), and when the family returned to the US she grew to maturity living at the family homestead at Pine Lake, Michigan, where her father was involved with, alongside his Hodges Vehicle Co. concerns, the co-founding of the Automobile Club of Detroit, which eventually became known as Pine Lake Country Club.
As a teen she won several golf matches at the Pine Lake course, having been taught to play by the club pro, a Scotsman who played the course (as an object lesson) using only a putter, by name of Jock Inkster.
Along the way, she met Harlan S. Smith, the youngest son of Samuel W. Smith, the U.S. Congressman who represented the 6th District of Michigan. Perhaps they met at the Scarab Club, where Muriel's father was a founding member, and near where Harlan's father lived while he resided in Detroit. In any event, they were wed on April 5th, 1924 at the home of Muriel's father at Pine Lake.
Harlan built the newlyweds a home on Cherokee Rd. in the new Seminole Hills subdivision of Pontiac, and they spent their remaining years at this address, having daughter Margaret along the way.
The subsequent years were replete with family gatherings with all the Hodges siblings and cousins, and trips to the vacation home up north with the grandchildren - a more grand procession of events could not have been planned.
Muriel was greatly loved and sadly missed when she slipped away in 1981 to meet her husband in Heaven.
She is missed still...
~ ~ ~
I have so loved the glory of the day
From singing dawn to wonderous setting sun,
I think some light must linger on my eyes
When life is done...
I think some glow of sunset or of dawn
Must touch the sleeping altars of my soul,
So they who look into my face at last
Shall wonder of my goal...
So they who come at twilight with wet eyes
Shall look upon my stillness, smile and go
A little surer of their Paradise
Because I loved life so!
She spent her early years in France while her father studied art (he was awarded a 5-year scholarship by the French government), and when the family returned to the US she grew to maturity living at the family homestead at Pine Lake, Michigan, where her father was involved with, alongside his Hodges Vehicle Co. concerns, the co-founding of the Automobile Club of Detroit, which eventually became known as Pine Lake Country Club.
As a teen she won several golf matches at the Pine Lake course, having been taught to play by the club pro, a Scotsman who played the course (as an object lesson) using only a putter, by name of Jock Inkster.
Along the way, she met Harlan S. Smith, the youngest son of Samuel W. Smith, the U.S. Congressman who represented the 6th District of Michigan. Perhaps they met at the Scarab Club, where Muriel's father was a founding member, and near where Harlan's father lived while he resided in Detroit. In any event, they were wed on April 5th, 1924 at the home of Muriel's father at Pine Lake.
Harlan built the newlyweds a home on Cherokee Rd. in the new Seminole Hills subdivision of Pontiac, and they spent their remaining years at this address, having daughter Margaret along the way.
The subsequent years were replete with family gatherings with all the Hodges siblings and cousins, and trips to the vacation home up north with the grandchildren - a more grand procession of events could not have been planned.
Muriel was greatly loved and sadly missed when she slipped away in 1981 to meet her husband in Heaven.
She is missed still...
~ ~ ~
I have so loved the glory of the day
From singing dawn to wonderous setting sun,
I think some light must linger on my eyes
When life is done...
I think some glow of sunset or of dawn
Must touch the sleeping altars of my soul,
So they who look into my face at last
Shall wonder of my goal...
So they who come at twilight with wet eyes
Shall look upon my stillness, smile and go
A little surer of their Paradise
Because I loved life so!
Muriel Mariva Hodges was born in Washington, DC, the 2nd daughter of 7, and of the 8 children of George Schuyler Hodges and Agnes Idaline Bacon.
She spent her early years in France while her father studied art (he was awarded a 5-year scholarship by the French government), and when the family returned to the US she grew to maturity living at the family homestead at Pine Lake, Michigan, where her father was involved with, alongside his Hodges Vehicle Co. concerns, the co-founding of the Automobile Club of Detroit, which eventually became known as Pine Lake Country Club.
As a teen she won several golf matches at the Pine Lake course, having been taught to play by the club pro, a Scotsman who played the course (as an object lesson) using only a putter, by name of Jock Inkster.
Along the way, she met Harlan S. Smith, the youngest son of Samuel W. Smith, the U.S. Congressman who represented the 6th District of Michigan. Perhaps they met at the Scarab Club, where Muriel's father was a founding member, and near where Harlan's father lived while he resided in Detroit. In any event, they were wed on April 5th, 1924 at the home of Muriel's father at Pine Lake.
Harlan built the newlyweds a home on Cherokee Rd. in the new Seminole Hills subdivision of Pontiac, and they spent their remaining years at this address, having daughter Margaret along the way.
The subsequent years were replete with family gatherings with all the Hodges siblings and cousins, and trips to the vacation home up north with the grandchildren - a more grand procession of events could not have been planned.
Muriel was greatly loved and sadly missed when she slipped away in 1981 to meet her husband in Heaven.
She is missed still...
~ ~ ~
I have so loved the glory of the day
From singing dawn to wonderous setting sun,
I think some light must linger on my eyes
When life is done...
I think some glow of sunset or of dawn
Must touch the sleeping altars of my soul,
So they who look into my face at last
Shall wonder of my goal...
So they who come at twilight with wet eyes
Shall look upon my stillness, smile and go
A little surer of their Paradise
Because I loved life so!
She spent her early years in France while her father studied art (he was awarded a 5-year scholarship by the French government), and when the family returned to the US she grew to maturity living at the family homestead at Pine Lake, Michigan, where her father was involved with, alongside his Hodges Vehicle Co. concerns, the co-founding of the Automobile Club of Detroit, which eventually became known as Pine Lake Country Club.
As a teen she won several golf matches at the Pine Lake course, having been taught to play by the club pro, a Scotsman who played the course (as an object lesson) using only a putter, by name of Jock Inkster.
Along the way, she met Harlan S. Smith, the youngest son of Samuel W. Smith, the U.S. Congressman who represented the 6th District of Michigan. Perhaps they met at the Scarab Club, where Muriel's father was a founding member, and near where Harlan's father lived while he resided in Detroit. In any event, they were wed on April 5th, 1924 at the home of Muriel's father at Pine Lake.
Harlan built the newlyweds a home on Cherokee Rd. in the new Seminole Hills subdivision of Pontiac, and they spent their remaining years at this address, having daughter Margaret along the way.
The subsequent years were replete with family gatherings with all the Hodges siblings and cousins, and trips to the vacation home up north with the grandchildren - a more grand procession of events could not have been planned.
Muriel was greatly loved and sadly missed when she slipped away in 1981 to meet her husband in Heaven.
She is missed still...
~ ~ ~
I have so loved the glory of the day
From singing dawn to wonderous setting sun,
I think some light must linger on my eyes
When life is done...
I think some glow of sunset or of dawn
Must touch the sleeping altars of my soul,
So they who look into my face at last
Shall wonder of my goal...
So they who come at twilight with wet eyes
Shall look upon my stillness, smile and go
A little surer of their Paradise
Because I loved life so!
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MURIEL H SMITH
IN HEAVEN
APR 24 1890 JUL 30 1981
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