The son of Orville Hodson and Emma Waterbury Hodson of Martin, South Dakota, he was born in Mitchell, South Dakota, December 11, 1909, and graduated in 1930 with a B.S in electrical engineer from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota. He was honorably discharged from the National Guard of the United States and of South Dakota February 23, 1931. Following a brief employment with Westinghouse, just prior to the depression, the job that started his 41 years in the electrical utility business was climbing poles and reading meters for Black Hills Power & Light, Rapid City, South Dakota. A transfer in 1938 sent him to Southwestern Public Service Company, where he initially worked in Roswell, New Mexico, before moving to its headquarters in Amarillo, Texas. During his thirty- six years of service with Southwestern Public Service Company, he designed and directed the building of most of the current- day electrical power generation and transmission for that company, choosing low- cos, coal- fired plant options, in place of nuclear, but adding air and water pollution and conservation controls, and resource reuse and recycling, that were far ahead of their time. A patent was awarded to him for his design of a “pot- holder”, a device for attaching transformers to electrical poles. The nucleus of what is now Utility Engineering was developed under his direction. He officially retired as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Southwestern Public Service Company on December 31, 1974, but he never stopped creating and consulting, in design engineering and electrical utility management, or worrying about the direction of the company and the industry as a whole. As a registered professional engineer in Texas, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma, Mr. Hodson was a member of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Management Committee of Edison Electric Institute and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, which organization advanced him to the grade of Fellow, in 1962, for his contributions to the electrical utility industry. He served two, six- year terms on the Texas Board of Engineers, and was elected as Chairman in 1958. He was a member of the First Christian Church, where he served on the board of directors and as chairman, and was also a deacon and an elder. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club of Amarillo, the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce, the Amarillo Khiva Shrine Temple of the Masonic Order, the Y.M.C.A. and the Roswell Lodge #18 of the Masonic Temple. He was listed in Who’s Who in Engineering, Who’s Who in Commerce and Industry, and Dun & Bradstreet’s Top Management. The arts, music, fine arts and crafts, proved to be a life-long passion; and he not only collected, but also contributed through his beautifully designed and crafted muzzle- loading rifles, building 15 of them before physical limitations ended his work. He and Marjorie L. Gray were married December 31, 1931. She predeceased him in 1985 following 53 years of marriage.