Christine Hood
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Christine Hood
August 30, 1950 - December 1, 2013
Christine Daisy
Hood, 63, of Nederland, died Sunday, December 1,
2013, at The Medical Center of Southeast Texas, Port Arthur. She was born on August 30, 1950,
to Verna Rose Broussard and Alto Berry Smith, in Port
Arthur, and moved to Nebraska from
1974 until 1986 before residing in Nederland.
Christine lived
her life for the Lord. After graduating from Thomas
Jefferson High
School in 1968, she continued her college education at Lamar University. She taught special education and elementary
school in Nebraska and Port Arthur for over twenty-nine years. Two things
she enjoyed most were music and singing. Christine will be remembered as a
loving wife, mother, grandmother, and sister with a self-sacrificing heart.
Survivors
include her husband of forty years, Preston Hood; sons, Jamie Hood and his
wife, Cecilia, of Flower Mound and Jeremy Hood and his wife, Leeza, of Lake
Jackson; daughter, Melissa Hood of Nederland; grandchildren, Kyler, Kennan, Kayson,
and Ryan Hood; sister, Renell Perron and her husband, Malcolm, of Port Arthur;
brother, Berry Smith of Port Arthur; and a host of other relatives and friends.
She is preceded
in death by her parents.
A gathering of
Mrs. Hood’s family and friends will be from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Wednesday,
December 4, 2013, at Broussard’s, 505 North 12th Street, Nederland.
Her funeral service will be 2:00 p.m., Thursday, December 5, 2013, at First
Baptist Church, 1191 Nederland Avenue, Nederland. A family committal will be
held at Broussard’s Crematorium, Beaumont.
Memorial contributions
may be made to Muscular Dystrophy Association, Supporting ALS (Lou Gehrig’s
disease), 3300 East Sunrise Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85718 or online at https://secure.mdausa.org/donate.
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