The body of Fred Hodges, 24 years old, was found about 200 feet from the Colby school house, about five miles north of Arlington, at noon today by some of the school children. Hodges was last seen on Saturday forenoon when he left a grip at the house of Charlie Craven for whom he had recently worked. The body lay at the edge of a cornfield, under a hedge, and some ten feet away an empty bottle, which had contained cocaine. He was known to have been a cocaine and cigarette user and recently a man for whom he worked had taken a bottle of cocaine from him. He was of German descent and is reported to have two brothers living in Omaha. Coroner Pierce and Sheriff Mencke decided not to hold an inquest and the body was turned over to Undertaker Reckmeyer of Arlington for burial there.

Note: Not burial records were located.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~