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- [S84] E-Mail, Robbie Norman [storminorman85@hotmail.com], 5 Aug 2011.
- [S142] Newspaper Article, The Huntsville Times (AL), 30 Jan 2006.
Sept. 12, 1921 - Jan. 28, 2006
Sallie Cora Cody , 84, of New Hope, died Saturday ather home.
She was preceded in death by her son, Herbert Junior Cody .
She is survived by her husband, Clifton R Cody ; six daughters, Ruby Keel,Jane Norman, Joyce Slayton, Jo Ann Terry, Martha Pruitt and Betty Lanier;four sons, Ray Cody , Ervin Cody , Marshall Cody and Roger Cody ; one sister,Betty Rainey; one brother, Ralph Duncan ; 30 grandchildren; 47 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today at New Hope Funeral Home. Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with Bro. Harold StClair officiating. Interment will be at Walker Cemetery.
- [S142] Newspaper Article, The Huntsville Times (AL), 2 Feb 2006.
Sallie Cody - With family of 94, reunions kept her busy
Life Stories - Sallie Cody enjoyed serving several generations of kin
By KEITH CLINES
kclines@htimes.com
With 94 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren, holidays and family reunions could be sort of hectic for Sallie Cody .
All of her family would come at one time on Christmas until Sallie became sick about five years ago, said her daughter, Jane Norman.
"When she got sick, we split up," Norman said. "They came in like shifts from lunch to after supper."
Sallie Cora Duncan Cody , 84, died Saturday at her New Hope home. Her funeral was Tuesday.
"She was a very precious lady," Norman said.
Friends and relatives filled 16 pages of the visitors register at the funeral home. There were so many flowers sent to the funeral home that Norman and the family hardly knew what to do with all of them. She said the florist told her he'd done a lot of flowers for funerals, "but never for someone as loved as my mother.
"She lived a good life," Norman said. "She raised 10 children. We're all fat and sassy."
Along with the 10 surviving children, Sallie had 30 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren and seven great-great grandchildren. A son, Herbert Junior Cody , was run over by a car and killed in Marshall County when he was 6.
Making sure that she gave all her grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren a Christmas gift required Sallie and her children making a list. If anyone was ever left out, Sallie and her children would grab something new out of a drawer and wrap it.
"She did all the cooking by herself," Norman said. "She made everything from scratch. I never knew her to use a recipe. She would never sit down to eat until everybody else had eaten."
The last big family get-together was for the Fourth of July 2004.
"It was just people, people, people," Norman said. "She did a great job while she could still cook."
Sallie and Clifton Cody would have been married 68 years Sunday. Early on as a child, Sallie chose the nickname " Cody " for herself; later she would marry a man whose last name was Cody , Norman said.
The family home places of Sallie Duncan and Clifton Cody in Five Points in Marshall County were separated by only a pasture. Clifton said Sallie and another girl showed an interest in him while they were all in the field picking cotton. The two girls started picking cotton on a row on either side of Clifton.
"They got in a cotton boll fight over me, throwing cotton at each other," he said.
Clifton asked a friend which one of the women he should choose. The friend told him Sallie was from a good family.
"When I asked her to marry me, I told her I didn't have a penny," Clifton said. "She said, 'Don't feel too bad because I don't either.' I loved that woman. We had very, very little trouble."
Sallie and Clifton, who was a farmer, moved several times in the early years of their marriage. From Marshall County to County Line Road in Madison County to Limestone County to Georgia to Tennessee to Marshall County and finally to the New Hope area. The built a house in New Hope 35 years ago.
Lunchroom worker
Sallie worked in the Whitesburg Middle School lunchroom for 24 years before retiring more than 10 years ago. After retiring, Sallie helped Clifton collect and sell scrap iron until she became to ill.
Sallie was a quiet person and never got mad, Norman said.
"I never heard her say a bad word about anybody," Norman said.
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