Gene Rhodes

November 30, 1931 - September 6, 2016

Services for Mr. Gene Rhodes, age 84 of Hideaway, are scheduled for 3:00 PM Friday, September 9, 2016 at the Caudle-Rutledge-Daugherty Funeral Home in Lindale with Rev. Herschel Sanders officiating. Interment will follow in the Woodside Cemetery in Grand Saline. Mr. Rhodes died Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at a hospital in Tyler. He was born in Grand Saline, Texas on November 30, 1931 to the late Herbert Armond and Dooma (Bell) Rhodes and served in the United States Marines during the Korean War. Mr. Rhodes was formerly of Dallas until moving to Hideaway in 1992. He was a member of the Hideaway Lake Community Church, the Saints Alive Sunday School Class, and the Hideaway Lake Kiwanis Club. Mr. Rhodes was a master Electrician and retired from Mobil Oil Company in 1992. After retiring, he operated Rhodes Electric in the Lindale and Hideaway area. Mr. Rhodes was preceded in death by his wife, Lovie Joy Rhodes in 2003, grandson, Stuart Addison Rhodes in 2010, brother, James Armond Rhodes, 3 sisters, his twin, Joan Lord, Ruby Hemington and Thelma McPhail. He is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Becky and Robert Porter; son and daughter-in-law, Jeffery Armond and Cynthia Rhodes; 2 sisters, Joyce Mathews and Lovey Smitham; 4 grandchildren, Michael Brady Porter, Britney Joy Mott, Collin Gene Rhodes, and Bailey Lace Hammontree; and numerous nieces and nephews. The pallbearers will be members of the family. The family will receive friends from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM prior to the service Friday, September 9, 2016 at the Caudle-Rutledge-Daugherty Funeral Home in Lindale.