"Our Family Serving Yours"
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Hodges
Family Funeral Home
is family owned and operated with the owners living in Dade City.
We are dedicated to the goal of treating our families just as we
wish to be treated, with dignity, integrity, respect and personal care.
We value friendships
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Michael
Hodges is a licensed funeral director and embalmer.
He and his
wife, Carolyn, live in
Dade City. Michael and
Carolyn have four children, Rachel,
Desiree, Courtney, and Michael.
  A
Texas native, Michael was a medic in the Air Force during Vietnam and continued
in the medical profession after his honorable discharge in 1974.
He was the Technical Director of Anesthesiology Research
for the
University of Utah, Ohio State University and the University of South
Florida. He established Hodges
Family Funeral Home
in 1999 in its present location, at the corner of Church & Fifth
Street in Dade City. Our
business number in Dade City is 352-567-0000, Zephyrhills 813-788-6100,
which is answered day and night by a funeral director, as
we believe that families need to speak to
a caring individual, not an answering service.
 Michael
is a member of St. Mary’s Episcopal
Church; Florida Funeral Director’s Association;
Former Member of the Board
of Directors and Treasurer, Habitat for Humanity 2000-2004;
Dade City Rotary Club, Rotary Club Treasurer, 2000-2002; Chamber
of Commerce, Dade City; Chamber of Commerce, Zephyrhills; Chamber of
Commerce of Wesley Chapel; Former member, Board of Directors, and Treasurer, Downtown
Mainstreet, City of Dade City; is on the Board of Directors for Gulfside
Regional Hospice; Pasco County Fair Association; member of the RAC Board of Dade City and is a member of the
Republican Party of Pasco County Executive Committee. He was a
former member of the Code Enforcement Board, City of Dade City and the
Citizen's Advisory Planning Board, City of Dade City; Michael
primarily serves families in the Dade City Chapel.
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Carolyn
Hodges.
a
Tampa, Florida native, had been a Special Education teacher in
 Hillsborough
and Pasco County since her graduation from the University of South Florida
in 1972. In June of 2000, she joined Michael at the funeral home
full time. She and Michael are co-owners of Hodges Family Funeral
Home and are
members of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Dade City. Carolyn is also a
member of the Dade City Women's Club and was elected to the Board of
Director's of Dade City Chamber of Commerce and serves as President in
2007. She is
on the Board of Education at the Academy at the Farm and is a
member and former Secretary of the Sunrise Rotary of Dade City.
Carolyn is the General Manager of our Zephyrhills location and assists in
serving families at both Dade City and Zephyrhills Chapels. Carolyn loves
her family, her friends, and her dogs, but not necessarily in that order. |
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 Randy
Bush is a licensed Funeral Director and is a native of Dade City,
graduating from Pasco High School in 1983 and Pasco Hernando
Community College in 1986. He graduated from Gupton-Jones College of
Mortuary Science in Atlanta where he served as President of the Phi Sigma
Eta Honor Society. He is married to Darlene Johnson Bush; They have two children, Brandon &
Brianna. The Bush's are members of the First Baptist Church in Dade
City, where they have participated in the music outreach program and
Wednesday evening children's programs. They are active in the local
charter schools "parent-teacher" organization. Randy is
also a member of
the Dade City Sunrise Rotary Club. Randy is the FDIC, Funeral Director
In Charge, of our Hwy 301 Chapel in Dade City, and is a co-owner of Hodges
Family Funeral Home, Inc.
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Rachel Dowling is the daughter of Carolyn and Michael Hodges, and works as the Business Manager for the funeral homes. Prior to joining the family business, she was a teacher at Tampa Preparatory School and coach of the school’s dance team. She has also taught at Wharton and King High School in Tampa, and was a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. Rachel lives in Zephyrhills with her sister Desiree, who also works at the funeral home. Rachel is a vegetarian and has acquired a love for animals from her mother. She has owned all types of pets in her life, but currently has 2 cocker spaniels, Jackson and Diamond, and 3 cats, Colby, Casey, and Prescott.
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Desiree is an RN at Lakeland Regional
Medical Center, Courtney is a Pastry Chef at Bern's Restaurant in
Tampa and Michael is currently serving in the US Navy in the
Persian Gulf on an Anti-Terrorism Task Force.
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and
are committed to providing the highest quality care for the most
reasonable prices.
Jim
Kehr is the General Manager for Hodges Family Funeral Home and
has been a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer for 30 years,
having worked and lived in Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, before
moving to Florida. He brings experience having worked in both
small and large family owned funeral homes, corporate owned funeral
homes and having owned his own. He is very glad to be a part of a
family owned funeral home, where personal service, attention to
details and receiving a good value are important part of the funeral
service. He and his wife, Carolyn, have been very
involved in many community and civic organizations and are members
of the Zephyrhills Nazarene Church. They have two adult sons who
live in Lawrence, Kansas and Bourbonais, Illinois.