John David Hodge

Glover Funeral Home

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Posted by: Glover Funeral Home
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Date: Jul 19 2024 11:04 AM

John David “JD” Hodge, beloved son, brother, uncle, and friend passed away Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Born in Orlando, FL on December 21, 2000. JD and his family moved to Dothan when he was 4 years old.

Celebration of Life services will be held at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at Glover Funeral Home with Adam Roberson officiating. The family will receive friends from 1:00 until 2:15 p.m., prior to the service.

JD was a 2019 graduate of Providence Christian School. He played a little bit of football and a whole lot of baseball while at Providence. He had such a love for the game of baseball and he played with some of the best. He was so proud to be a part of the 2016 15U World Series Championship team, and the 2019 3A State Championship team. John David went on to study at Auburn University where he joined the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, forging bonds and creating memories with brothers he would call family. After 3 years at Auburn, he decided to take time off from school and work for a year. He stayed in Auburn and found a work family he loved and admired.

Music was his passion though, so much so that he was affectionately known as Uncle Jamz by his nieces and nephews. He traveled across the country, attending concerts at iconic venues like Red Rocks, The Caverns, Pier 17, and The Gorge, investing every spare dime he had into experiencing live music at its finest. His next anticipated adventure would have been to a folk concert this weekend with his sisters. Next month was to be a trip to a concert at Fenway with one of his dearest friends.

To know JD was to know laughter. Friends and family will remember him for his enormous heart, his incredible sense of humor, and his beautiful smile. That infectious smile will be missed by a host of special friends and family.

Survivors include his parents, John & Sandi (Shute) Hodge of Dothan; two sisters, Anna James (Justin) of Springhill, TN, and Abby Sparkman (Daniel) of Dothan;  nieces and nephews, Poppy James, Decker James, Dane Sparkman, and Kennedy Sparkman; and grandmother, Jean Shute.

Predeceased by Grandfathers, Harold Hodge and David Shute, Sr.

Flowers will be accepted or you may honor John David by donating to the SAE Foundation in his memory at SAE Foundation, 1856 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60201. This money will go directly to the Building Fund for the Auburn SAE house where he loved spending time with his brothers. For convenience, there is a direct link below, please note that it is in memory of JD Hodge.

https://support.sae.net/give/603384/#!/donation/checkout

 

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