Evicted Veteran Johnnie Hodges Getting His Home Back

Did you know that Evicted Veteran Johnnie Hodges Getting His Home Back?

Did you know that Evicted Veteran Johnnie Hodges Getting His Home Back? This is an update to a previous discussion when Johnnie was in the news about possibly losing his home. Here is a happy ending for a World War II veteran Johnnie H. Hodges Sr., 90, who will be back in his house for Veterans Day, Nov. 11 -- if not sooner.

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Donations from across the country for his family to buy back his Humboldt Parkway home have more than doubled the goal of $50,000. As of last Tuesday, more than $107,000 had been collected in the online GoFundMe account established by Williamsville resident Greg Elwood, who felt moved to help Hodges after reading about his plight in The Buffalo News. In fact, in the space of an hour that afternoon, the fund had increased by $2,000.

Hodges had been physically removed from his home July 9 by first responders and authorities after a local bank foreclosed on the house because he had been behind in his mortgage payment for years. He said he had lost track of his finances while caring for his wife, Flora, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died last year.

Flora Hodges' birthday fell on Monday, the day donations went through the roof.

"I don't know if I can put into words how amazing it is that the fund nearly tripled starting on Flora's birthday," Elwood said.