AUGUSTA - Jacqueline L. Hodgkins, 79, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, March 31, 2018. She was born in Chelsea, Maine on June 6, 1938, daughter of Joseph and Jeannette (Marois) Lapointe. Jackie attended elementary school in Chelsea and was a 1957 graduate of Cony High School in Augusta. She worked at the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. in Augusta, the Southern Bell Telephone Company in Miami, Florida, and W.T. Grants in Augusta. Jackie married Clyde Hodgkins of Greene on August 19, 1967. She then worked as a bookkeeper in their businesses - Auburn Metal Buildings Company and Hodgkins and Buker Land Surveyors. Jackie enjoyed antiquing and spending time at her camp on the lake. She was a former communicant of St. Francis Mission in Greene. She and her husband spent winters in St. Petersburg, Fla., where she lived after Clyde's passing.
Jackie is survived by her daughter, Lynne Solomon and her husband, Alan Baer; her son, Joseph Hodgkins and his wife, Leisa; her brother, Kenneth Lapointe and his wife, Jeannine; her seven grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews and great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her parents; her husband Clyde in 2010; her two sisters, Jeannine and Joan; her two brothers, Norman and his wife, Jo Anne, and Romeo and his wife, Patricia; and her step-mother, Marguerite.
Friends and family are invited to share their memories and offer their condolences by visiting Jackie's online guestbook at www.thefortingrouplewiston.com
Graveside services for Jackie and Clyde will be held on Saturday June 23, 2018 at 1:30pm at the Valley Cemetery in Greene.
Memorial donations may be made in Jackie's memory to the Maine General Hospice or the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition. A service of The Fortin Group Funeral Home, Cremation and Monument Services, 70 Horton St., Lewiston, Maine, 04240. 784-4584.
