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Margaret Rebecca <I>Hodges</I> Hotchkiss

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Margaret Rebecca Hodges Hotchkiss

Birth
Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia, USA
Death
1 Sep 2017 (aged 92)
Saint Johns Park, Duval County, Florida, USA
Burial
Blackshear, Pierce County, Georgia, USA GPS-Latitude: 31.3069259, Longitude: -82.235712
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Mrs. Margaret Rebecca Hodges Hotchkiss, 92 of St. Johns, passed away Friday, September 1, 2017, at Legacy of St. Johns assisted living center.

Born in Statesboro, GA on July 3, 1925, she had lived in Jacksonville for many years before moving to St. Johns fourteen months ago. Mrs. Hotchkiss was a graduate on Blackshear High School where she had been on the basketball team and had also played basketball for the Savannah City League. She worked as a secretary for a number of years prior to opening her own daycare center, Lakewood Wee Care, which she ran for many years. Mrs. Hotchkiss loved to cook and enjoyed sewing. She was a member of Fruit Cove Baptist Church in Jacksonville but had also attended the Legacy Bible Study Group at Legacy of St. Johns.

She was a daughter of the late William Jasper & Carrie Rebecca Ann Sanders Hodges. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Hubert Hazel Hotchkiss; all seven of her sisters, Ester Durden, Bernice Deal, Lorene Eure, Lucille Hodges, Martha Sue Bell, Louise Plyler, and Dorothy Watkins; and all six of her brothers, Norman, Carl, Waldo, Vernon, Charles, and Quinton Hodges.

Survivors include her two daughters, Becky Hotchkiss of Savannah and Donna & Randy McGill of St. Augustine, FL; 3 grandchildren, Randy McGill, Jr., Rylee Marie McGill, and Gracie Bea McGill; and several nieces, nephews, and other relatives.

Funeral services for Mrs. Hotchkiss will be held Monday morning, September 4, 2017, at 11:00 o’clock from the Pearson-Dial Chapel.

Interment will be in the Blackshear Cemetery.

Visitation will be held at the funeral home one hour prior to the service.

Memorials may be made to the Fruit Cove Baptist Church Youth Department, 501 State Road 13, St. Johns, FL, 32259, the Samaritans Purse, Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, PO Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607, or to a charity of one’s choosing.

Sympathy may be expressed by signing the online register at www.pearsondial.com

Pearson-Dial Funeral Home, Inc. of Blackshear is in charge of the arrangements.
Mrs. Margaret Rebecca Hodges Hotchkiss, 92 of St. Johns, passed away Friday, September 1, 2017, at Legacy of St. Johns assisted living center.

Born in Statesboro, GA on July 3, 1925, she had lived in Jacksonville for many years before moving to St. Johns fourteen months ago. Mrs. Hotchkiss was a graduate on Blackshear High School where she had been on the basketball team and had also played basketball for the Savannah City League. She worked as a secretary for a number of years prior to opening her own daycare center, Lakewood Wee Care, which she ran for many years. Mrs. Hotchkiss loved to cook and enjoyed sewing. She was a member of Fruit Cove Baptist Church in Jacksonville but had also attended the Legacy Bible Study Group at Legacy of St. Johns.

She was a daughter of the late William Jasper & Carrie Rebecca Ann Sanders Hodges. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Hubert Hazel Hotchkiss; all seven of her sisters, Ester Durden, Bernice Deal, Lorene Eure, Lucille Hodges, Martha Sue Bell, Louise Plyler, and Dorothy Watkins; and all six of her brothers, Norman, Carl, Waldo, Vernon, Charles, and Quinton Hodges.

Survivors include her two daughters, Becky Hotchkiss of Savannah and Donna & Randy McGill of St. Augustine, FL; 3 grandchildren, Randy McGill, Jr., Rylee Marie McGill, and Gracie Bea McGill; and several nieces, nephews, and other relatives.

Funeral services for Mrs. Hotchkiss will be held Monday morning, September 4, 2017, at 11:00 o’clock from the Pearson-Dial Chapel.

Interment will be in the Blackshear Cemetery.

Visitation will be held at the funeral home one hour prior to the service.

Memorials may be made to the Fruit Cove Baptist Church Youth Department, 501 State Road 13, St. Johns, FL, 32259, the Samaritans Purse, Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, PO Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607, or to a charity of one’s choosing.

Sympathy may be expressed by signing the online register at www.pearsondial.com

Pearson-Dial Funeral Home, Inc. of Blackshear is in charge of the arrangements.


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