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Theda Cahill
On May 17, 2017, Theda “Tedie” Alice Meade Hodges-Cahill, 85 of Covington, Louisiana died peacefully at home. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Tedie was involved and active in numerous civic and social organizations and believed in involvement in her community and her Catholic faith. She was a Child of Mary.
She is survived by her loving children and their spouses: Carlys Hodges Guillot (Carlton), Jack Raymond Hodges, Jr. (Kristine), Harold Meade Hodges (Shirley), John David Hodges (Audrianna), and Ann Hodges Simon, grandsons; Scott Thomas Hodges (Danielle), Paul Edward Hodges, Gavin Hodges Guillot (Jenny), Joshua Lucas Simon, Jack Raymond Hodges, III (Emily) and Kyle Joseph Hodges and granddaughters, Natalie Hodges Koehler (Jennifer), Heather Hodges Schambaugh (Jeremy) and Remi Nicole Hodges; great grandchildren; Greere Klaire Koehler, Marlee Cecilia Koehler, Asher Michael Koehler, Kate Elise Schambaugh, Cullen Ryland Guillot, Evelyn Therese Guillot, Emma Louise Hodges and Hunter Atkinson Moody. Joined with extended family Caroline N. Cahill, Marion C. Vargas (Noel), Forrest E. Cahill, William P. Cahill, Jr., Corinne A. Cahill, the late Edward D. Cahill, Kaitlyn Cahill, CiCi Cahill, Tedie Cahill, Hannah Cahill, Abigail Cahill, Armand U. Cahill and Tonio Rosa. Survived by sister-in-law, Beverly Hodges Davis and brother-in-law Richard Paul Hodges (Carol) and many nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her husbands, Jack Raymond Hodges and William Preston Cahill, parents, Harold Edward Meade and Alice Carlys Meade, her sister Ann Meade Nalty. The family would like to extend our deepest gratitude and love to the caring sitters, Sandra Branneky, Brenda Knight and Natoya Casnave.
The life of Tedie will be celebrated in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 24, 2017 at St. Stephen Catholic Church, 1025 Napoleon Avenue (9:30 a.m. Visitation and 10:30 a.m. Mass). Interment will follow the services at Metairie Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Tedie’s honor to Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, Academy of the Sacred Heart or Notre Dame Hospice. Please Share a Memory on the Tribute Wall at www.ejfieldingfh.com.
Joseph Floyd Cormier
Joseph “Floyd” Cormier, 80, departed this life on May 10, 2017, in the loving arms of his wife after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He loved the Lord and was a longtime member of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, Hampton, Virginia.
The youngest of seven children of the late Desiree and Adelice Cormier, he was born in Indian Bayou and grew up on a rice farm. He was very proud of his French heritage and loved Cajun music with a passion.
Floyd graduated from Crowley High School in 1954 then joined the Air Force serving 12 years as an enlisted airman before earning the rank of officer, retiring as captain. He graduated cum laude with a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Missouri, where he was a member of the Tau Beta Pi Association. After retiring from the Air Force, he worked for 17 years as a senior industrial engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding.
He loved gardening, traveling, dancing and playing bridge, but most of all he loved his family.
Floyd is survived by his wife of 58 years, Thelma, whom he called “my blue-eyed lassie from Lancashire”; his son, Dwayne; his daughters, Tracey Blackshear and her husband Mike and Yvette Zolea and her husband Guiseppe; seven grandchildren, Dylan, Christian, Owen, Maxwell, Nicholas, Lucia and Simon; his brother, Huey Cormier and his wife Dorothy of Rayne; and all his loving relatives in Louisiana.
A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 21, at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church by Rev. Reginald Rumburg and Rev. Jeff Cannon. He will be laid to rest with full Air Force honors in the Albert G. Horton Jr. State Veterans’ Cemetery in Suffolk at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 99 E. Mercury Blvd., Hampton, VA 23669.
Arrangements by R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home.
