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'''Mildred Cleone Haynes Hodges''', known as '''Cleone Hodges''' (July 11, 1909 &ndash; September 9, 2012), was from 1938 to 1974 a [[professor]] of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at [[Appalachian State University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/appalachianstateuniversity/docs/atw12/64|title=Faculty Deaths|publisher=issuu.com|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref> in Boone in Watauga County, [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.press-herald.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3767:ms-cleone-haynes-hodges-&catid=65:obituaries&Itemid=115|title=Cleone Haynes Hodges|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=September 14, 2012}}</ref>An article in ''The Watauga Democrat'' newspaper published a month before her death at the age of 103 referred to Hodges as "among the most loved of local residents — and a liberated woman long before the term was coined."<ref name=snorris/>

'''Mildred Cleone Haynes Hodges''', known as '''Cleone Hodges''' (July 11, 1909 &ndash; September 9, 2012), was from 1938 to 1974 a [[professor]] of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at Appalachian State University<ref>{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/appalachianstateuniversity/docs/atw12/64|title=Faculty Deaths|publisher=issuu.com|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref> in Boone in Watauga County, [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.press-herald.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3767:ms-cleone-haynes-hodges-&catid=65:obituaries&Itemid=115|title=Cleone Haynes Hodges|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=September 14, 2012}}</ref>An article in ''The Watauga Democrat'' newspaper published a month before her death at the age of 103 referred to Hodges as "among the most loved of local residents — and a liberated woman long before the term was coined."<ref name=snorris/>

 

 

==Background==

==Background==

Hodges was born in the [[village]] of Shongaloo in Webster Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]], to Oscar Henry Haynes, Sr., and the former Mary Lynn Burns (1889-1971).<ref>Hodges's grandparents were  John Oscar Haynes (1848-1918), a native of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], and his second wife, the former Julia Ann Butts (1862-1935), and Andrew Jackson Burns (1851-1946) and Isabelle Burns (1853-1910).</ref> O. H. and Lynn Haynes relocated south to [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], the seat of government of Webster Parish. Haynes, Sr. was elected Webster Parish [[sheriff]] in 1933 and served until 1952. His son and Cleone's younger brother, O. H. Haynes, Jr., held the same position from 1964 to 1980.<ref>Sandwiched between the two terms of O. H. Haynes, Sr., and O. H. Haynes, Jr., was their [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] intraparty rival, Sheriff J. D. Batton.</ref>Hodges had two other brothers, J. Y. Haynes and his wife, the former Edith Henry, both deceased, and Delmus Wells Haynes (1918-1919), who died prior to his second birthday.<ref>{{cite web|url=

Hodges was born in the [[village]] of Shongaloo in Webster Parish in northwestern [[Louisiana]], to Oscar Henry Haynes, Sr., and the former Mary Lynn Burns (1889-1971).<ref>Hodges's grandparents were  John Oscar Haynes (1848-1918), a native of [[Georgia]], and his second wife, the former Julia Ann Butts (1862-1935), and Andrew Jackson Burns (1851-1946) and Isabelle Burns (1853-1910).</ref> O. H. and Lynn Haynes relocated south to [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], the seat of government of Webster Parish. Haynes, Sr. was elected Webster Parish [[sheriff]] in 1933 and served until 1952. His son and Cleone's younger brother, O. H. Haynes, Jr., held the same position from 1964 to 1980.<ref>Sandwiched between the two terms of O. H. Haynes, Sr., and O. H. Haynes, Jr., was their [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] intraparty rival, Sheriff J. D. Batton.</ref>Hodges had two other brothers, J. Y. Haynes and his wife, the former Edith Henry, both deceased, and Delmus Wells Haynes (1918-1919), who died prior to his second birthday.<ref>{{cite web|url=

http://wileyfamilyofshongaloo.familytreeguide.com/getperson.php?personID=I03467&tree=T1|title=Mary Lynn Burns|publisher=Wiley Family of Shongaloo|accessdate=September 14, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52850384|title=John Oscar Haynes (grandfather of Cleone Hodges)|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>

http://wileyfamilyofshongaloo.familytreeguide.com/getperson.php?personID=I03467&tree=T1|title=Mary Lynn Burns|publisher=Wiley Family of Shongaloo|accessdate=September 14, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52850384|title=John Oscar Haynes (grandfather of Cleone Hodges)|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>

==Academic, athletic, and civic activities==

==Academic, athletic, and civic activities==

Hodges first attended [[Northwestern State University]], then the state teacher training institution in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana, before she enrolled for graduate studies at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. There she was an LSU Lady Tigers [[basketball]] player and once competed against the [[Olympic Games|Olympian]] [[Babe Didrikson]].<ref name=snorris/>

Hodges first attended Northwestern State University, then the state teacher training institution in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana, before she enrolled for graduate studies at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. There she was an LSU Lady Tigers [[basketball]] player and once competed against the [[Olympic Games|Olympian]] [[Babe Didrikson]].<ref name=snorris/>

 

 

Hodges was hired at Appalachian State by the first chancellor that the university ever had.<ref name=scholarship>{{cite web|url=http://healthsciences.appstate.edu/sites/healthsciences.appstate.edu/files/HEALTH%20PROMOTIONS%202011-12.pdf|title=Cleone Hodges Scholarship|publisher=healthsciences.appstate.edu|accessdate=September 25, 2014}}</ref>She was long active in the First [[Baptist Church]] of Boone and was a life member and past president of the Rhododendron Garden Club. After retirement from Appalachian State University, she was for twenty-three years the secretary of the Watauga Parks and Recreation Commission and served as well on the Boone Town Beautification Committee.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.hcpress.com/obituaries/watauga-county/watauga-county-obituaries-compiled-sept-12-2012.html|title=Cleone Hodges, Died September 9, 2012|date=September 12, 2012|publisher=''High Country Press''|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref><ref name=snorris/>

Hodges was hired at Appalachian State by the first chancellor that the university ever had.<ref name=scholarship>{{cite web|url=http://healthsciences.appstate.edu/sites/healthsciences.appstate.edu/files/HEALTH%20PROMOTIONS%202011-12.pdf|title=Cleone Hodges Scholarship|publisher=healthsciences.appstate.edu|accessdate=September 25, 2014}}</ref>She was long active in the First [[Baptist Church]] of Boone and was a life member and past president of the Rhododendron Garden Club. After retirement from Appalachian State University, she was for twenty-three years the secretary of the Watauga Parks and Recreation Commission and served as well on the Boone Town Beautification Committee.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.hcpress.com/obituaries/watauga-county/watauga-county-obituaries-compiled-sept-12-2012.html|title=Cleone Hodges, Died September 9, 2012|date=September 12, 2012|publisher=''High Country Press''|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref><ref name=snorris/>

Hodges was divorced from the late Jack A. Hodges.<ref name=snorris/> In addition to her son, she was survived by two granddaughters, Erin Hodges-Demas and Alyssa Hogan, both of Hickory in Catawba County, North Carolina; three great-grandchildren, and her sister-in-law, Freddie Louise Walker Haynes (born 1924) of Minden, Louisiana, the widow of Sheriff O. H. Haynes, Jr. Hodges died at her residence<ref name=obit/> and is interred at Mountlawn Memorial Park and Gardens in Boone.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hodges&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=29&GScnty=1745&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GSsr=41&GRid=119837101&df=all&|title=Cleone Haynes Hodges|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>

Hodges was divorced from the late Jack A. Hodges.<ref name=snorris/> In addition to her son, she was survived by two granddaughters, Erin Hodges-Demas and Alyssa Hogan, both of Hickory in Catawba County, North Carolina; three great-grandchildren, and her sister-in-law, Freddie Louise Walker Haynes (born 1924) of Minden, Louisiana, the widow of Sheriff O. H. Haynes, Jr. Hodges died at her residence<ref name=obit/> and is interred at Mountlawn Memorial Park and Gardens in Boone.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hodges&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=29&GScnty=1745&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GSsr=41&GRid=119837101&df=all&|title=Cleone Haynes Hodges|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>

 

 

In 1987, the Cleone Haynes Hodges Scholarship was established in her honor to support Appalachian State University students in the College of Health Sciences.<ref name=scholarship/> In 2005, Hodges was inducted into the Watauga County Sports Hall of Fame.<ref name=snorris/>In 2012, on the occasion of Hodges's 103rd birthday, [[U.S. Representative]] [[Virginia Foxx]] of North Carolina's 5th congressional district rose to the House floor to offer a tribute to the retired professor and civic leader.<ref name=vfoxx>{{cite web|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r112:H10JY2-0046:/|title=Recognizing the 103rd Birthday of Cleone Hodges|date=July 10, 2012|publisher=Thomas.loc.gov|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>  

In 1987, the Cleone Haynes Hodges Scholarship was established in her honor to support Appalachian State University students in the College of Health Sciences.<ref name=scholarship/> In 2005, Hodges was inducted into the Watauga County Sports Hall of Fame.<ref name=snorris/>In 2012, on the occasion of Hodges's 103rd birthday, [[U.S. Representative]] Virginia Foxx of North Carolina's 5th congressional district rose to the House floor to offer a tribute to the retired professor and civic leader.<ref name=vfoxx>{{cite web|url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r112:H10JY2-0046:/|title=Recognizing the 103rd Birthday of Cleone Hodges|date=July 10, 2012|publisher=Thomas.loc.gov|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>  

 

 

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