Emma Mae Hodkin departed this life on July 13, 2014 at the age of 90 years and 10 months.
Emma Mae was born September 8, 1923 in Pleasonton, KS to Martha Lewis and Roy Martin. Due to a separation of her parents and the Great Depression Emma Mae and a younger brother were placed in an orphanage , Emma Mae lived there for a number of years before her brother Ray came to take her to his family, the younger brother had been adopted by a rancher in western Kansas. Emma Mae lived most of her life in and around Carthage after the death of her husband and daughter, Emma Mae moved in with her son Irwin Dale and wife Patty in Willard, MO, where she joined the Brookline Baptist Church. She was a homemaker and was a former member of the First Baptist Church of Carthage, she and Leon spent years helping their daughter Betty and son-in-law Robert Wilson with the First Baptist Chapel it was for the disadvantaged people of Carthage.
Emma Mae was united in marriage to Irwin Leon Hodkin on September 20, 1939. To this union four children were born Betty Jane, Nancy Sue, Irwin Dale and Jimmie Leon. Emma Mae is survived by Nancy Sue Thompson and husband Ricky of Tahlequah, OK, Dale Hodkin and wife Patty of Willard, MO, Jimmy Leon Hodkin and wife Lynn of Grove, OK, several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Emma May is preceded by her mother and father and husband Irwin Leon Hodkin, her daughter Betty Jane, her sister Elsie and four brothers Otis, Roy, Virgil and Paul, and 6 grandchildren.
Services will be held 2:00 p.m. Thursday July 17, 2014 at Ulmer Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday July 17, 2014 at the Ulmer Funeral Home. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery Carthage, MO. Online condolences can be made at www.ulmerfh.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of Ulmer Funeral Home.
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