‘Helper to others’: Former pastor remembers victim killed in Wyoming plane crash [Video]

SUSPECT INFORMATION. NEW TONIGHT A CRASH IN WYOMING KILLED A WOMAN WITH TIES TO THE TRIAD. MELODY HODGES WAS AMONG SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED IN FRIDAY’S CRASH, ALONG WITH THREE MEMBERS OF A POPULAR GOSPEL GROUP. KARA PETERS SAT DOWN WITH HODGES, FORMER PASTOR AND SHARES THE IMPACT SHE HAD ON HER CHURCH COMMUNITY. MICHAEL BARRETT TELLS ME MELODY HODGES BECAME A MEMBER OF PLEASANT GARDEN BAPTIST CHURCH IN 1998. HE SAYS WHAT HE WILL MOST REMEMBER ABOUT HER IS HER CALLING TO SERVE OTHERS TO HELP SOMEONE IS ALWAYS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, AND THAT WAS HER LIFE. MICHAEL BARRETT SAYS. HE WAS MELODY HODGES, PASTOR AT PLEASANT GARDEN BAPTIST CHURCH FOR OVER 20 YEARS FROM THE MOMENT SHE WALKED THROUGH THE DOORS, SHE GOT INVOLVED PROBABLY MAIN CHARACTERISTIC ABOUT HER LIFE WAS SHE WAS A HELPER TO OTHERS. UH, GREAT SMILE. UH, LOVE PEOPLE, LOVE JESUS. SHE AGAIN …