1909 – 2004

TURNER – Florence O. Hodgkins, 94, died Thursday evening, March 11, at the home of her son, David surounded by her family.

She was born in Greene Aug. 23, 1909, the daughter of Albra E. and Mary Wilkins Odiorne. She attended Patten Grammar school in Greene and graduated from Brunswick High School in 1928. She also attended Gorham Normal School and Pratt Institute of Art, studying design in Brooklyn, N.Y.

For one year she taught at the Mountain School in Greene and for a time worked in the design dept. of Priscilla Turner Rug Co. in Turner. In Greene, on June 16, 1932, she married Stanley D. Hodgkins. Except for six years in Topsham and 12 years on Dillingham Hill in Auburn, they spent their married life in Greene. Mr. Hodgkins died April 2, 1990.

In 1956, Mrs. Hodgkins became the Pioneer teacher for the Lewiston Auburn Association for Retarded Children at the old Garcelon School in Lewiston. In 1960, she was called to Farmingdale to open a school for the Kennebec Valley Council for Exceptional Children. In 1964, she returned to the teaching staff of her former shool, later absorbed by Pathways Inc. of Auburn, and retired in 1978.

She was a member of the Baptist Church of Greene where she had been active on the building committee and also belonged to the Greene Senior Citizens. Her latest hobby was “Turning Memories into Memoirs.” Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Earl (Shirley) Feinman of East Aurora, N.Y.; two sons. Clyde B. Hodgkins and his wife Jacqueline of Winthrop, David R. Hodgkins and his wife Martha of Turner; four grandson’s; four granddaughters; 12 great-grandchildren; one niece, Patricia Stevens; and one nephew, Frederick Odiorne.

She was predeceased by a sister, Emily Wood in 1974; and a brother, Raymond Odiorne in 1952.