- Date Of Birth: November 30, 1930
- Date Of Death: July 31, 2011
- State: Texas
Velma Lea Hood, November 30, 1930 – July 31, 2011.
Mrs. Hood went to be with her Lord Sunday evening, July 31, 2011 at a Temple Nursing Home. She was born November 30, 1930, in the Prairie Dell Community, Bell County, Texas to Ben and Letha Burks. She was Baptist, having been baptized at Calvary Baptist Church in Belton in 1947. She attended school in Prairie Dell and Belton and the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Velma married Thomas R. (Tuff) Hood in Belton, January 24, 1949. They lived in the Central Texas area, West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and relocated to Texas after retirement. She worked for Potts Hardware, KTEM/KCEN and an accounting firm in Sweetwater, Texas and Gallup, New Mexico where she taught accounting. She was the Assistant Manager of Southern Arizona H&R Block until retiring in 1967. Mrs. Hood was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Dorothy LaNell and Letha Faye.
Survivors include her husband of 63 years, brothers and spouses, F. N. and Darlene Hood of Harker Heights and Billy and Brenda Hood of Killeen and numerous nieces and nephews.
