Services for Andrew Hodge will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church with the Rev. Denny Allman officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 5 until 6 at Williams Funeral Service.

Andrew Hodge died Saturday, April 11, 2009, at his home. He was 85.

Mr. Hodge was a lifelong member of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church and a member of the American Legion Post 154, Grand Rapids, Mich. He served in the U.S. Navy. He retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he worked aboard the Lipscomb as the head chef for more than 40 years. Mr. Hodge also retired as sergeant first class from the U.S. Army 412th Engineer Division in 1984.

His parents, Annanias and Lula Hodge, and brothers, Lem Woods, James Woods and Corneluis Woods, preceded him in death.

Survivors include his wife, Judith Hodge of Vicksburg; a daughter, Linda N. Tolliver of Vicksburg; a son, Andrew Perez Hodge of Ridgeland; two stepsons, Larry Lewis of Victorville, Calif., and Charles Jones of Vicksburg; two stepdaughters, Linda Griffith of Fort Worth and April Jones of Vicksburg; three sisters, Grace Woods and Odessa Hodge, both of Chicago, and Rosetta Woods of Milwaukee, Wis.; grandchildren Melissa Faith Payne of Brandon, Stacey Craine of Jackson and Lorissa Hope Tolliver of Vicksburg; a great-grandchild, Myles Andrew Payne of Brandon; an uncle, Leon Hodge of Greenville; a cousin, Maurice Coleman of Rolling Fork; and a host of other relatives and friends.