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HONORING SENIORS
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Senior Senior
Margaret Hodgson
Artistic
Living
by Erin Hodgson
n a letter thanking his brother town of Alvin, Texas. Margaret, her Since the age of six, when her
for financial support, artist parents, and her brother, Kenneth, mother gave her crayons and a
IVincent Van Gogh expressed lived in a two-room worker house grocery bag to color on, Margaret
his overwhelming gratitude by on the dairy farm where her father has loved art. She was always
saying, “I feel there’s nothing more was employed. World War II chosen to be the illustrator for
genuinely artistic than to love brought many job opportunities class projects and the yearbook
people.” Margaret Hodgson, my in America, so before she was 10, because she was, and still is, very
grandmother, has expressed her Margaret’s family had moved 13 talented. She majored in Art at then
love through people and through different times. Leonard pursued Abilene Christian College (ACC).
her art as well. a job in Vancouver, Washington, to Later in life, she got her Master’s in
work at a shipyard building ships Educational Psychology from the
Leonard and Lorraine Kamstra for the Navy. “I was five years College of Saint Rose in Albany,
were proud to have a daughter, old when the war ended, and I New York.
Margaret Ann, born on the first day remember a lot of celebration and
of spring in 1940 in the Gulf Coast confetti coming from the buildings. While at ACC, Margaret met the
The ship my father love of her life, Howard Hodgson,
was working on when when he was working as a model
the war ended was in an art class she was taking.
never used in combat, Howard had come from Canada to
but instead was ACC to run track. Before meeting
used as a transport Howard, she was keen on the idea
ship to bring the of becoming a commercial artist
soldiers back home. and moving to the Dallas area;
We attended its however, Howard’s desire was to be
christening.” The a teacher, so Margaret abandoned
family finally settled her dream and became a teacher
in Pasadena, TX, also. They were engaged for 13
where Margaret months and married on August 4,
attended Deer Park 1962. “Life with Howie was always
High School. exciting. He was always wanting to
go new places, see new things, and
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