Lenora Sanger Hodson (1882-1920)
(Mrs. Thomas R. Hodson)
- Lenora, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Sanger was born in Lowell, May 6, 1882. She was a successful teacher in the public schools of Lake County for six years. She was employed for sometime by the Burlington railroad in Omaha, Nebraska.
December 23, 1914, she was united in marriage to Thomas R. Hodson in Salt Lake City, Utah. A few weeks ago she visited her mother and other relatives in Lowell. On her return to the west she with her husband went into Idaho County, Idaho, where for more than a year he has been employed by the United States government as a forest ranger. Here she was taken ill with pneumonia and in three days in spite of every care her husband could give her she slipped away at one o clock in the morning of June 3, 1920.
Her husband, mother, aged grandmother, Mrs. Clarinda Wiley, three sisters, Mrs. Lettie Buckley, of East Chicago; Mrs. Hazel Hoffman, of Lowell; Mrs. Anna Young, of Cincinnati, and many other relatives survive her.
Mrs. Hodson was a good woman, enterprising, loving and kind. She shared with her husband the hardships and the ambitions of his work, going with him into the mountains of Idaho. The body was brought here for burial, arriving Monday evening.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the home of Jacob Hoffman, Rev. C.A. Brown officiating. A wealth of flowers attested the love and sympathy of friends and relatives. Interment in the Orchard Grove cemetery, in charge of Undertaker Weaver.
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