"Dear Paul, Jim, Matt and Mike, and to your families, I have so many wonderful memories of your beautiful wife and mother. She was such an inspiration to me in so many ways, and I can still hear her laugh even though it has been so many years since I saw her last. We can only hope that she is with Clara, Margaret, my Dad Corky, and her many friends that went before her. As you know, Mary was a very special woman. My deepest sympathies, Nancy and Joe Borzynski"
In loving memory of
Mary Hilt Cody
A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF MARY H. CODY, age 77, of Paradise Valley, Arizona, will be held at 10:30am on Friday August 26, 2011 at LaCasa de Cristro Lutheran Church, 6300 E. Bell Rd. Mary lived every day to the fullest and was happiest when she was doing something for others. She took special pleasure in doing things with her children and grandchildren, who she dearly loved. She was an outstanding cook and regularly cooked Sunday evening meals for her children and grandchildren and for larger groups including close friends on holidays. She had a special talent for arranging furniture and hanging pictures to give rooms a cozy, lived-in feel and she generously used this talent with family members and friends. She was an advocate of strong families and family values and demonstrated these beliefs in her day to day living. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 19, 1934, the youngest child to John J Hilt Sr and Clara Hanson. She lived her first 57 years in Racine, Wisconsin, moving to Paradise Valley, Arizona in 1990. She married her high school sweetheart, Paul Cody in 1956 and they celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary in June of this year. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison in interior design and decorating. She is survived by her husband Paul J. Cody, three sons James J. Cody and wife Lea (nee Lindblum) of Mancos, Colorado, Michael W. Cody and wife Cathy (nee Richards) of Phoenix, Arizona, Matthew H. Cody and his wife Whitney (nee Monefeldt) of Scottsdale, Arizona; six granddaughters Katharine Cody of Phoenix, Jena Cody of Mancos, Colorado, Taylor Cody, Paige Cody, Shaye Cody and Emma Cody all of Scottsdale; brother John J. Hilt Jr and wife Delores (nee Rice) of Buffalo City, Wisconsin and four nephews, John J. Hilt 3rd, Hartford, Wisconsin, Michael P. Hilt, Anchorage, Alaska, Jeffery J. Hilt, San Antonio, Texas and Patrick Hilt, Mancos, Colorado.
Tributes
"Our prayers are with your family. Our deepest sympathy."
"Mary was the kind of person we would all like to be. Very special in every way."
"Mary was a most nobel woman - I was privileged to know her and for . the rest of my life, I will carry her in my heart"
"Dear Paul, Jim, Mike, Matt and family, I send my love and condolences at this difficult time in your lives. I will always remember the laughs Mary shared with my Mom, Laurice, and the friendship and stories shared over the years from the locally famous "bridge club who doesn’t play bridge." I admit that I do remember them playing bridge, long ago. I wish you God’s peace and comfort as she is present with the Lord now. Linda Lamb"
"Mr. Cody, Jim, Mike and Matt, Your wife and mother meant so very much to me. As you know I practically grew up at the Cody house in Racine. What wonderful memories I have of those times! I would like to share just a few of them with you now...Mrs. Cody’s hot fudge sauce and roasted pecans (she gave me the receipt for these two a few years back and I will forever cherish them as I often share them with my own family, we call it ?Mrs. Cody?s hot fudge?), Playing in the sandbox in the yard (the largest one in the neighborhood), thinking how cool it was that you could burn your trash in a 55 gallon drum, your large and beautiful Christmas trees, the wood hand-painted ornaments, coming over to the house on Christmas morning to play with all the new toys and games in the basement, raiding the pantry in the kitchen, eating raw cookie dough, thinking how good your well water tasted in those thick amber glasses she had, playing croquet in the lawn (and breaking a window), swimming in your pool, watching the front gas light come on at dusk as we played kick the can in your front yard, picking pears from the tree, getting locked up in the storage closets in the garage, going up in the attic of the garage??.the list goes on and on. Looking back I now appreciate how much this wonderful person loved her family and all the children of the neighborhood. I often think what life would have been like without Indiana St. and the Cody family. I only wish that a place like that could exist today for my children as they are growing up. I owe so much to Mrs. Cody and the Cody family! But the Cody family would not have been the same without this wonderful wife and mother. She made many personal sacrifices for her family and us neighborhood kids, and for that I am truly grateful. Thank you Mrs. Cody! A job well done! God bless you! I will close with this quote I found. Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death. - Author Unknown I love you all, John Jaskulske"