Obituary of Mollie Hodes

MOLLIE FEDER HODES Mollie Feder Hodes, formerly of New York City and a resident of Glen Eddy Retirement Community in Niskayuna since 2002, passed away on October 31, 2010. She was 101 years old and proud to be the oldest member of the Glen Eddy Community. Mollie was born in Brooklyn on May 26, 1909 to Herman and Fannie Feder. A resident of Brooklyn and Queens for 92 years, she was married on March 17, 1940 to Sydney Hodes. Mollie and Sydney became the parents of Joel Hodes on June 13, 1947. Sydney predeceased Mollie on December 10, 1981. Mollie's professional career spanned some 65 years from her high school graduation in January 1927. She was a personal assistant to prominent New York City lawyers and doctors before assuming a management role in the professional medical practice founded by her brother, Aaron Feder, and continued following Aaron's death in 1985 by their dear friend and Aaron's partner and protégé, Richard P. Cohen. Mollie remained a pillar of Dr. Cohen's practice and a favorite of his many patients until her retirement in May 2002, when Mollie relocated to Glen Eddy. Mollie's friends and family celebrated her intelligence, her sensitivity, her boundless optimism, her intimate knowledge of New York City (as well as of medicine -- expertise that she would deny, but upon which all her relatives and friends endlessly relied), her practicality in all things and her uniquely logical turn of mind. At least as much, Mollie herself valued her independence and self-reliance. She was also a loving and caring mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, aunt, great aunt and great-great aunt, as well as a dear friend to many in New York and at Glen Eddy. Mollie's survivors include her son Joel and his wife Lisa of Albany; Mollie's grandchildren, Liz Hodes of New York City, Amanda Hodes of Boston and Daniel O'Connor of Albany; her nieces, Carol Glatstein of Coconut Grove, Florida and Jane Dellsy of Chicago, Illinois and their husbands, Philip Glatstein and Harlan Dellsy; Mollie's grandnieces, Dina Murphy and Debra DeFarcy and their extended families; her grandnephew, Robert Dellsy; and all her fellow "inmates" at Glen Eddy, whom she has often described as the best friends she ever had. Mollie Hodes left her mark on the history of two centuries. Her passing brings to her many friends and descendants a terrible and enduring sense of loss. Mollie's funeral will be held at her graveside at Mount Hebron Cemetery, 130-04 Horace Harding Expressway, Flushing, New York 11367 on Wednesday November 3, 2010 at 11:00am Directions to the cemetery are at http://www.mounthebroncemetery.com/page.asp?id=hours The Hodes family will be receiving friends and family at their home, 3 Greyledge Drive, Loudonville, New York on Wednesday and Thursday, November 2 and 3, 2010 from 6:30 to 8:30 . and on Friday, November 4, 2010 from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M. In lieu of flowers, Mollie would be pleased to have any gifts in her memory made to the The Dr. Aaron Feder Visiting Professorship in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York 10065.