Penny Hodge

Penelope "Penny" Hodge (1920 – July 5, 2016) was a Canadian office worker and activist.

Penny Hodge
Born
Penelope Anderson

1920
Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada
DiedJuly 5, 2016
Canada
NationalityCanadian
OccupationActivist
Office worker

Life and career

The daughter of Martin Anderson, a Baptist preacher, and Alfaretta Berry, a teacher, she was born Penelope Anderson in Digby, Nova Scotia and grew up on a farm in Yarmouth. Hodge was educated at a segregated public school. After graduating from high school, she attended teacher's college in Truro. After two years of teaching, she was hired as a clerk by the National Research Council in Ottawa. After three years, she moved to Toronto; she worked briefly for the YWCA and then became a clerk at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, retiring in 1986.[1][2]

Around 1952, she joined the Canadian Negro Women's Association (CANEWA), later the Congress of Black Women of Canada; she served as treasurer, then vice-president before becoming president in 1956. Hodge also provided administrative support for the Ontario Black History Society on a volunteer basis and served as historian for the First Baptist Church in Toronto.[1]

She was married twice: first to Rupert Hodge and then to a Mr. LaVaughn.[3]

In 2012, she received the Mary Matilda Winslow award from the Ontario Black History Society.[4]

She died in hospital at the age of 96.[3]

References
  1. Hill, Lawrence (1996). Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association, 1951-1976. pp. 29–32. ISBN 1895642183.
  2. "Foremothers of Black Women's Community Organizing in Toronto". Atlantis. 24 (2). 2000.
  3. "Penelope LaVaughn (Anderson) Hodge". Toronto Star. July 10, 2016.
  4. "Honour bestowed". Town Crier. February 14, 2012. Archived from the original on February 6, 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
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