OBITUARY: Hugh Earl Rhodes

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Hugh Earl Rhodes, beloved husband of Marie, passed away on Friday, December 15, 2023 after a short illness.

Hugh Earl Rhodes was born January 7, 1932, in Gulfport, Mississippi, the son of Hugh Edward Rhodes and Pattie Earle Harwell Rhodes.

He grew up in Nashville, attended high school in Louisville, Kentucky, then earned a bachelor’s degree at Georgetown College in Kentucky where he was in Lambda Chi Alpha. Immediately after college, he entered the US Army and served in the Counter Intelligence Corps in Pusan, Korea.

Upon discharge from the Army, Earl joined his parents in Columbia. He met Marie Dickson at First Baptist Church in Columbia. They married three years later and enjoyed sixty-four years of marriage together.

Earl was a well-educated man. He earned a Master’s in Business at the University of Tennessee Nashville, and was a Chartered Life Underwriter, a Chartered Financial Consultant, and a Life Underwriters Training Council Fellow. He earned a minor in Bible as an undergraduate and continued to read and deeply study the Bible throughout his life.

Besides his wife Marie, he is survived by his son, Bill; his grandson, Joe (Paola) of Revere,
Massachusetts; and his granddaughter, Megan (Connor) Hilfinger of Salem, Massachusetts.

Visitation will be Thursday, December 21, from noon until 2 PM at Oakes and Nichols Funeral Home in Columbia. Reverend Mr. Daniel McCulley will officiate a funeral at 2 PM. Internment will follow at Polk Memorial Gardens. https://www.oakesandnichols.com

 

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