Pearline Hamilton Hodge, 90, of Fitzgerald, Georgia died November 2, 2012 at Tift Regional Medical Center in Tifton, GA.
Funeral services will be held 11 A.M. Monday, November 5, 2012, at The Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Fitzgerald with the Rev. Dan Hayes officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour before the service on Monday.
Mrs. Hodge was born September 24, 1922 in Sumter, South Carolina to the late Marion Jenkins and Ella Sephie White Hamilton. She lived in Fitzgerald for more than sixty years. Mrs. Hodge was a former cafeteria employee at Fitzgerald Elementary School, a sales clerk at Allied Department Store and the Addition and a former employee of Holt’s Bakery. She was a member of Westside Baptist Church where she was her Sunday school class recorder.
She is survived by her children: Shirley and Wayne Downing, Henry and Kathleen Hodge, Robert Hodge and Larry Hodge, all of Fitzgerald, and Marie and Don Green of Irwinville; grandchildren: Donna and Al Hatcher, David and Breana King and Jessica Hodge; great-grandchildren: Calvin, Alli and Zander Hatcher, Denee Satterfield, and Dylan King; brother, Francis “Charlie” Hamilton of Conway S.C. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Lester Hodge, sons Mike Hodge and Archie Hodge, brother Albert Hamilton and sisters Rena Mae Allen and Thelma McIntosh.