It was probably too soon, but I made an attempt anyway. It has been two weeks since Mom died and yesterday I decided to take a cursory look at the mounds of paperwork she had amassed from being a community volunteer, preservationist, and historian for over fifty years. These papers are her story, her history, her work that lives on. I need to organize them.
Itâs going to be a bit of a job, if you will entertain my understatement. Mom did not have a computer, so nothing has been scanned into computer files or stored in a Cloud. Instead, I am confronting boxes of original documents and her meticulous notes, in which she detailed where a particular artifact was discovered (often accompanied with a photograph) before it was placed in the Taoist Temple museum. Her notebooks also include lists of China Alley tours, including dates, the names of tourists, where they were from, and why they were interested in visiting the Alley. Other boxes bulge with thorough notebooks on forty years
COLUMBUS – Hattie L. Woods, 87, formerly of Youngstown, received her wings Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.
She was born Aug. 26, 1933, in Youngstown, the daughter of Henry Sr. and Mattie Anderson Clinkscale.
She attended Youngstown City Schools and was a member of Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church. She was formerly employed with Towel Supply for many years and retired as a shift leader. Mrs. Woods was an expert at quilting and crocheting. She was also an avid reader, enjoyed playing bingo and made award-winning apple pies.
Mrs. Woods was a single parent of seven who was always there for her children; her love never wavered. She devoted her life totally to raising her children and her door was always open to a host of nieces and nephews. She was able to enjoy her later years of life traveling all over the country to visit with her children. Her favorite place to travel was Hawaii.