Biography Gladys Delores Hodge
Name: Gladys Delores Hodge
D.O.B: 20 Dec 1917
Parents: Constance Simmons raised by Phillip Jude on lower Bishop gate
Street: Related to Percy and Feddie Jude
Favorite Color: Blue
Fav food: rice and chicken, Pineapple pizza
Other names: Nenen, Sis Gladys, Little mother, Little one.
Mother of five children four boys- Kenneth Evanson, Charles and Carlton Green, Fitzroy Lake and one girl Verlyn Samuel Deceased.
Growing up Miss Hodge attended the Moravian school at five years old and then moved on to the girls school at country pond. In later years, when the point school was built students of point attending girls school were relocated there, and she continued to completed her education until Seventh Standard. She says proudly she received and confirmed at the Moravian church on S. John’s Street.
She speaks often of old market and Icehouse at Brysons, where her caretaker was a butcher, and would reminisce on having different cuts meat. She also has many stories of growing up through her adult life to keep one entertained for hours.
Upon leaving school she earned her living by washing, cleaning, working in the canefield and picking cotton. When recalling places of employment she is quickto mention Langfords, Cedar Valley and Wescot. She speaks of working at Miss Tavernier store selling cloth by the bale and hats. And then, when ladies needed a hairstyle she would fixed them up with plaits of rope or congo.
Through routine checkup with her doctor it was found that she had developed glaucoma and thirty-five years later she is completely blind. Inspite of this, she is by no means handicapped and still takes pride in doing many things for herself.
Sis Gladys is born-again believer and has been a member of the Villa Nazarene Church since it inception and remembers worshipping at Princess Margaret School before the church’s present location on Amy Byer Street. She loves her congregation and attends services every Sunday. She loves singing and when she gets up to testify of the goodness of her God, please give her time as she has so much to be thankful for.
She recently spoke on how she is forever grateful to God, as amny have passed on and she is still alive in this century on because of God’s Favour and mercy.
She has proudly raised of five of her fifteen grandchildren, all of whom love and highly respect and cherish her daily. Nene is a joy to sit and converse with, quite humorous and collective on current events because she listens daily to her favorite radio station and many other.
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Happy Birthday to you young lady! Blessings of love, joy, peace and happiness
Congratulations Ms Gladys Delores Hodge on your 104 years of excellence!
“A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” You and the other Centenarians had few choices to earn a living: ‘by washing, cleaning, working in the canefield and picking cotton.’
The Centenarians with steely hands and the strength of an ox labored and produced the economic wealth and social benefits for the colonizers. Now the Centenarians ask and say to the youths, ‘What’s in your hand?’ Smart phones (iphones and tablets), technological tools that they must use to research, study, learn and apply Science from STEM subjects + A, the arts of Caribbean studies, consciousness, and business courses to create and build your business enterprises.
HEALTH CRISIS! Yesterday, today, and tomorrow! It’s time for all of us to act to improve our health and strengthen our human immune system.
The venerable Centenarian-members of Living Legends from life’s experiences in historical context, say to all of us, especially the youths, simply:
Develop a Culture of HEALTH. EAT BETTER and EXERCISE MORE so that we can all TAKE CONTROL OF OUR HEALTH and be better together.
Plant, Eat and Trade, (PET action) fresh Fruits and Vegetables.
Grow Herbs in the garden and use them.
“The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.”
“You are what you eat.”
” Health is Wealth. Wealth is not Health.”
Blessings!
Another Antiguan centenarian. Wow, congratulations – how many is that now?
It seems like hard work, natures medicine, and fresh food is the key to longevity in Tigua.
GWAN GLADY’S … YOU ARE TRULY BLESSED!
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