Graveside funeral services were held in the West Side District Cemetery in Taft, California on Wednesday, June 13 for William Bradley Hodges. To his friends Mr. Hodges was better known as Billy, Funny Boy or Billy Boy.

He was born in Taft on November 12, 1973 and passed away on June 9, 2007 from injuries sustained in an auto accident. Billy was raised and educated in Taft and frequently spent time on Orcas Island with his mother, Deb Lloyd. He had been employed as a well puller for many years.

His survivors include his mother and step-father, Deb and Don Lloyd of Orcas Island; his father and step-mother, Andy and Linda Hodges of Taft; his grandparents, Bill and Joe Kosareff and Dwana Brummet; twin sons Nickolas and Danny Hodges of Orcas Island, and son Michael Hodges and daughters Lilly Hodges and Makayla Hodges of Bakersfield, and friend Jill Eggenberg; his wife Deanna; his brothers and sisters-in-law Gary and Jacquelyn Mobley and Bradley and Yolanda Hodges of Taft; his sister Sheri Hodges; his cousin Betty Palmer; his aunts and uncles, Cindy Kosareff, Shelley Taylor, Matthew Taylor, David Kosareff, James Hood, Linda and John Sims and Jim and Debbie Brummett and by many nieces and nephews.

Services were under the direction of the Erickson & Brown Funeral Home. I know you are now in the arms of our Lord. No one can touch you now, my son. We all miss you so much, you always made us laugh.

An account to benefit his twin sons, Nickolas and Danny Hodges of Orcas Island, has been set up at Islanders Bank in Eastsound in care of their grandmother Deb Lloyd: the Nickolas and Danny Fund.