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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/>

Athletic like her younger brother, O. H. Haynes, Jr., who played [[football]] for Minden High School in the late 1930s, and his son, Freddie Lynn "Fred" Haynes, who [[quarterback]]ed the MHS Crimson Tide and the LSU Tigers in the 1960s,<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=grfQzpojKc4C&pg=PT216&lpg=PT216&dq=J.+D.+Batton&source=bl&ots=4nHeyHMBdu&sig=ff5fMvEbDjxTuYeEMoQGFDR3ADg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=U94EVOecIcjf8AGK3IDgBA&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=J.%20D.%20Batton&f=false|title=Minden: Perseverance and Pride|author=John A. Agan|date=2002|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]|isbn=9781439630532|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref> Hodges turned to [[golf]] when her son, J. B. Hodges, played the game in high school. She was a member of the Blue Ridge Golf Association, the Blue Ridge Ladies’ Golf Association, and the Boone Golf Club, at which she won the championship in 1975. For years, she participated in the Senior Games at local, state, and national events and won eight Gold Medals.<ref name=snorris/> She scored the third of her career hole in one at the age of ninety three, when she retired from the sport.<ref name=vfoxx/> Hodges was also an [[artist]], whose oil paintings depict the [[Appalachian Mountains|Appalachian]] High Country.<ref name=snorris>{{cite web|url=http://www.wataugademocrat.com/community/article_a7fc44d4-7a0f-547e-acc4-68e797fd3479.html?mode=jqm|title=Cleone Hodges celebrates 103 years of life|date=July 7, 2012|author=Sherrie Norris|publisher=''Watagua, North Carolina, Democrat''|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>

Athletic like her younger brother, O. H. Haynes, Jr., who played [[football]] for Minden High School in the late 1930s, and his son, Freddie Lynn "Fred" Haynes, who [[quarterback]]ed the MHS Crimson Tide and the LSU Tigers in the 1960s,<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=grfQzpojKc4C&pg=PT216&lpg=PT216&dq=J.+D.+Batton&source=bl&ots=4nHeyHMBdu&sig=ff5fMvEbDjxTuYeEMoQGFDR3ADg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=U94EVOecIcjf8AGK3IDgBA&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=J.%20D.%20Batton&f=false|title=Minden: Perseverance and Pride|author=John A. Agan|date=2002|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]]|isbn=9781439630532|accessdate=September 1, 2014}}</ref> Hodges turned to [[golf]] when her son, J. B. Hodges, played the game in high school. She was a member of the Blue Ridge Golf Association, the Blue Ridge Ladies’ Golf Association, and the Boone Golf Club, at which she won the championship in 1975. For years, she participated in the Senior Games at local, state, and national events and won eight Gold Medals.<ref name=snorris/> She scored the third of her career hole in one at the age of ninety three, when she retired from the sport.<ref name=vfoxx/> Hodges was also an [[artist]], whose oil paintings depict the [[Appalachian Mountains|Appalachian]] High Country.<ref name=snorris>{{cite web|url=http://www.wataugademocrat.com/community/article_a7fc44d4-7a0f-547e-acc4-68e797fd3479.html?mode=jqm|title=Cleone Hodges celebrates 103 years of life|date=July 7, 2012|author=Sherrie Norris|publisher=''Watagua, North Carolina, Democrat''|accessdate=September 15, 2014}}</ref>

 

 

==Death and legacy==

==Death and legacy==

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>