| Penny Hodge | |
| Birth Name: | Penelope Anderson |
| Birth Date: | 1920 |
| Birth Place: | Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Death Date: | July 5, 2016 |
| Death Place: | Canada |
| Occupation: | Activist Office worker |
Penelope "Penny" Hodge (1920 - July 5, 2016) was a Canadian office worker and activist.
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]
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.[2]
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]