Harry H. Hodge, Jr. was born in Houston, TX on April 5, 1923 to Harry H. Hodge, Sr. and Adelena Brown Hodge. He went to be with his Lord and Savior on September 25, 2015.
Harry moved to Beaumont at the age of 9 when his father was made the pastor of what was to become the Sabine Tabernacle and he was in the very first service. He attended the schools in Beaumont from the fifth grade through the eleventh grade and graduated from Beaumont High School in 1939.
Harry worked at various jobs in Beaumont until he enlisted in the Army Air Corp. in 1942 and after attending various schools was sent to Barksdale Army Air Field in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1943. While he was training there as a crew member in a Martin B-26 bomber, he married Billie Craig. He was stationed in Shreveport for three months before being sent to England to be a part of the Ninth Air Force. He and his crew flew a bomber from South Carolina through South America and Africa to England.
He flew sixty nine missions over enemy territory and his plane was in the 1st bomber group over the beach on D-Day Invasion.
After the war, he worked for Glen McCarthy in a refinery in Winnie, Texas. Later he worked for Mobile Chemical in Beaumont and retired from there.
He was preceded in death by his father, Rev. Harry H. Hodge, Sr.; his mother, Adelena Brown Hodge; brother, Paul Brown Hodge; his son, Harry H. Hodge III; and daughter-in-law, Kay McCullough Hodge.
He is survived by his wife, Billie of 71 years; son, Craig M. Hodge and wife, Lois of Beaumont; grandsons Mark Hodge and wife Kasey of Beaumont and Paul Hodge and wife, Angela of Beaumont; great-grandsons, Connor, Jonas, and Logan; sisters, Marilyn Coffey of Beaumont and Jo Ann Hodge of Tulsa, Oklahoma; brother, Dr. Lewis Hodge and wife Elizabeth of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, September 28, 2015 at Sabine Tabernacle in Beaumont. Interment will follow at Forest lawn Memorial Park in Beaumont. A gathering of family and friend will be on Sunday, September 27, 2015 fro 5-7:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Those who wish may make memorial Contributions to the Salvation Army.