Erin Eileen McCann Rhoden, 66, died on Aug. 18, 2023, at T-Boone Pickens Cancer Center in Dallas.
Visitation will be held at Sneed-Carnley Funeral Chapel in Lampasas from 9-10 a.m. on Aug. 25. Graveside services will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery at 10:30 a.m.
Erin was born on April 11, 1957 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Charles and Beatrice (Higgins) McCann.
She graduated from Norwood High School in Norwood, Ohio, in 1975.
She joined the United States Army, where she served for 12 years. While in the Army, she was a recipient of the following awards: Good Conduct Medal (third award), Army Lapel Button, Army Achievement Medal and Army Accommodation Medal. Erin was honorably discharged in 1988 with the rank of staff sergeant.
She continued her education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
After 22 years of service, Erin retired from Central Texas College as an administration specialist in 2016. On Oct. 16, 1984, Erin married Michael Rhoden in Darmstadt, Germany.
Erin was a member of Community Church. Her interests and talents were vast and varied. She was an avid reader with a great love for history. She had the opportunity to visit 14 of the 15 Presidential Libraries and Museums.
In 2022, Erin published a small book primarily for her reading group, LABC Remembered. Her additional hobbies and interests included ancestry research, gardening, wildlife management and playing with her dog, Fionn.
Erin was preceded in death by her son, Deputy Sheriff John Andrew Rhoden; parents, Charles and Beatrice McCann; brothers Michael and Sean; and sisters Colleen and Maureen McCann; and her late grandmother, Margaret Rawlings McCann.
Survivors include her husband of 38 years, Michael Rhoden; her son, Allen Hamilton (Rebecca) of Seattle, Washington; three grandchildren, Michelle, Kodie and Kaitlyn Hamilton of Seattle; sisters Shelia McCann Mitchell of Villa Hills, Kentucky, and Kathleen McCann Ruxton of Cincinnati, Ohio; sisterin-law, Mary Estelle of Talladega, Alabama; and many nieces, nephews and other family.
Memorial donations may be made to the Lampasas Animal Shelter.
