Obit: Hodd, Robert (1916 - 2003)
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Surnames: HODD
TAYLOR JOHNSON RABEHL KIEFFER ----Source:
Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Loyal, Wis.) 04/30/2003 Hodd, Robert (10
NOV 1916 - 24 Apr 2003) Robert Hodd, 86,
Colby, Wisconsin, died on Thursday, April 24, 2003, at Deerview Meadows,
Marshfield. Funeral services were held at 1 p.m., on Monday, April
28, at First Presbyterian Church, Abbotsford. The Rev. Keith Jones
officiated. Burial was in the Abbotsford Public Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Lucas Northway, Wayne Johnson, Jerry Rabehl, Allen
Leu, Bob Morrow and Butch Hargraves. Honorary pallbearer was Bobby
Kieffer. Robert Hodd was
born on Nov. 10, 1916, in Stanley, to Fred and Elizabeth (nee
Taylor) Hodd. He married Cecil Bogue on June 30, 1940, in Withee.
He farmed in the town of Hoard until 1948. He opened the Abby
Theatre in 1949, and built the 13-29 Drive-In Theatre between
Abbotsford and Colby in 1969. He operated both theatres until
selling them to his son, Dave, in 1982. He also worked as a
bricklayer for Uhlig Construction. He was a member of First
Presbyterian Church, Abbotsford. His interests included spending
time at his cabin on Butternut Lake, hunting, fishing and the Green
Bay Packers. Survivors include
his wife, Cecil, Colby; four children, June (Gerald) Johnson,
Medford, Carol (Alvin) Rabehl, Marshfield, Janet (Tom) Kieffer,
Loyal, and David (Kim Dunlavy) Hodd, Colby; 10 grandchildren; 12
great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Dorothy Bogue, Watseka, Ill.,
and Ethel (Harris) Johnson, Curtiss. Preceding him in
death were his parents; two sons, Jerry, in 1969, and Robert Jr.,
in 1952; four brothers, Roy, Fred, Floyd and Ervine; and two
sisters, Etta and Myrtle. Maurina Funeral
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