Woman, 101, dies
Mrs Williamina Hodgkinson, a well-known North Canterbury centenarian died this week. She was 101. Mrs Hodgkinson was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, the youngest of nine children. She trained as a Red Cross nurse and volunteer to serve in a convalescent hospital for the troops, in Kilmarnock, in World War I. There she met a New Zealander, Mr Harold Hodgkinson, and married him at the war’s end, sailing for New Zealand in 1920. The couple farmed at Hawea until they retired to Rangiora in 1954 when the Government bought the farm to flood much of it with the raising of Lake Hawea. Mr Hodgkinson died in 1972, aged in his 90s. Mrs Hodgkinson moved into the Holmwood rest home at Rangiora about two years ago.
Mr Hodgkinson died in 1972, aged in his 90s. Mrs Hodgkinson moved into the Holmwood rest home at Rangiora about two years ago.
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