Winifred D. Roddy

Winifred Doris Roddy, age 95, of Greenville, passed away early Friday morning, June 20, 2025 at Corewell Health-Greenville Hospital. The daughter of Fred & Clara (Phenix) Hock, she was born on December 11, 1929 in Ionia Township, Ionia County, Michigan. Winifred’s father passed away before she was born and she was raised by Orie Carlsen and was a proud graduate of the Class of 1949 from Greenville Senior High School. On June 30, 1951, at the Chapel in the Garden in Angola, Indiana, she married Ardeth Clifford “Art” Roddy and together they raised a daughter and enjoyed over 44 years of marriage until Art passed away on October 17, 1997. Winfred’s first full-time job was as local switchboard operator in Greenville for the Michigan Bell Telephone Company and she retired from Wolverine Worldwide in Rockford. A life-long Detroit Tigers fan, she also enjoyed watching ice hockey. She was very skilled at quilting, sewing, and cross-stitching and needlework… and the items she crafted with love will long be treasured by those she gifted them to. She enjoyed traveling to wherever the car took her, was an avid reader, collected swans, thimbles, salt and pepper shakers, and Santa’s. Winifred delighted in decorating her home for the Christmas Holiday. She was preceded in death by her father, Fred Hock in 1929; her mother, Clara Hock in 1990; her adoptive mother, Orie Carlsen; her husband, Art Roddy; two brothers and a sister, Clifford Hock, Glen Hock, and Emma Oswald; two half-sisters, Alice and Elsie; a granddaughter, Jennifer Jones; and a great-granddaughter, Maxine. Surviving are her daughter and son-in-law, Ronda & Paul Sanders of Byron Center; a grandson, Rodney W. Jones, Jr.; four granddaughters, Christina Jones, Tracy Jones & Harlow Hansbarger, Katie Sanders, Erin & Dan Twiss; nine great-grandchildren, Kyle, Brittany, Emily & Mason, Paige, Dylan, Chloe, Hannah, Dominic and Kaylee; four great-great grandchildren; other dearly loved special friends including Joyce Ellsworth, Marilyn Oswald, Tammy Moore, Tammy Vandenburg, and Jimmy Smith, Jr.; and a host of nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, great-great nieces, and great-great nephews. Graveside committal services are at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at East Montcalm Cemetery, just north of Greenville on Highway M-91 across from Fox Powersports/Nelson’s Speed Shop. Instead of flowers, Winifred would have appreciated contributions in her memory to the Montcalm County Commission on Aging (P.O. Box 212, Stanton, MI 48888). To send a message of sympathy to the family, sign Winifred’s online guest book, or to share a favorite memory or photo, please visit: www.MichiganCremation.com Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Christiansen’s Michigan Cremation & Funeral Care, Greenville, 616-754-5638.