Born in Brunswick on March 14, 1930, she was a 1948 graduate of Brunswick High School. For 30 years, she was a secretary in the Department of Athletics and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bowdoin. She served as a volunteer for the Sexual Assault Support Services. Mrs. Hodgkins was a past member of the Brunswick Emblem Club and was a member of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Brunswick. She was predeceased by her husband, Douglas Knox Hodgkins, whom she married in 1951. Surviving are two daughters, Michele St. Clair of Rockport, Maine, and Deborah Marquis of Portland, Maine; a son, Douglas Stephen Hodgkins of Harpswell, Maine; a brother, Joseph Lionel Metivier of Hingham, Mass.; a sister, Eustelle Graves of Jupiter, Fla.; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.