Bainbridge Island resident, Maxine M. Hodes, age 87, died Dec. 15 at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle.

She was born Feb. 2, 1914 in Myrtle Point, Ore., to Norman W. and Nellie (Hermann) McDonald.

When she was four years old, her family moved to the Clear Creek area of Kitsap County.

She attended Clear Creek grade school, Central Kitsap High and graduated from Bremerton High School in 1932.

She earned a scholarship to study English at Washington State, but plans changed when she received a marriage proposal from Austin Haley. They married in 1933.

The couple moved to the Philippines when her husband, a machinist at the Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, was loaned to the Philippine Shipyard.

When WWII began, her husband was transferred to Washington, D.C. and she and the children were stranded in the Philippines.

After her mother sent a desperate appeal to freshman Sen. Warren Magnuson, they escaped on the last ship out before Japanese occupation.

After her husband died in a plane crash in Dec. 1947, she returned to Bremerton.

She married Lewis Hodes in 1955 and they resided on Mercer Island from 1957 to 1977.

With the exception of two years in Green Valley, Ariz., she lived on Bainbridge Island from 1977 until her death.

She is survived by sons Dennis R. Haley of Port Aransas, Texas, Patrick A. Haley of Myrtle Point, Ore. and Marshall Haley of Glendale, Ariz.; two sisters, Mary Ellen Adams of Seattle and Dorothy Whitley of Tacoma; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Brian, who died at age 6, and Lewis Hodes, who died in 1991.

A memorial will be held 1-3 p.m. Dec. 18 at Wyatt House on Bainbridge. Remembrances can be sent to Wyatt House, where she received care her last three years.

Arrangements are under the direction of Kass Funeral Home.