Photo Gallery: Dedication Ceremony Held Monday for Memorial Highway Naming

BY Alyssa Schnugg
Family, friends and community members came out for the naming ceremony.
The Oxford Police Color Guard presented the colors.
Hodges’ grandchildren, JJ Jones and Chasity Jones.
Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill
Lafayette County Coroner Rocky Kennedy
Lavera Hodges is all smiles.
Carnelia Fondren spoke at the ceremony.
Lavera Hodges, daughter of Nathan Hodges Jr.
Sheriff Joey East, right, greets a man at the ceremony.
MS Sen. Nicole Boyd
Despite the rain on Monday, family members, community leaders and friends attended the dedication of the Nathan Hodges Jr. Memorial Highway on Monday. The Mississippi Department of Transportation erected a sign renaming the portion of Highway 30 between the bridge passing over Highway 7 extending east to County Road 207. Hodges was the owner of Hodges Funeral Home for 60 years. He served on the Three Rivers Planning Board and the Parks and Recreation Board. He found the Lafayette County Improvement Club in 1952 at the Second Baptist Church in Oxford which later became the first NAACP chapter in Lafayette County. Photos by Terry Vaughn

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