By Rebecca Goodman
The Cincinnati Enquirer

WYOMING - Hilma Hohrath Woodward, daughter of German immigrants, carried on her family's artisan tradition by teaching crafts at the community center in Hartwell throughout the 1980s and into the early '90s.

The granddaughter of weavers and ribbon makers, Mrs. Woodward created projects - such as the making of paper-bead necklaces, decorative eggs and soft sculpture - that engaged the talents and interest of her elderly students.

She also worked for more than 25 years in the gift shop run by the Women's Service Guild of Goodwill Industries in Woodlawn.

"She was a devoted and generous friend to neighbors and to those she met in the everyday commerce of life," said her son, V. Powell Woodward of Northampton, Mass.

Mrs. Woodward died Jan. 20 in Newtown Square, Pa., where she had lived for the past 10 years. She would have been 100 in May.

Mrs. Woodward grew up in West New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y., and taught briefly in New York City before receiving a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1927.

The next year she married Vernon Woodward, an accountant and buyer for Procter & Gamble, and moved with him to Norwood. They later lived in Clifton and, after that, Wyoming.

Her husband died in 1960.

In addition to her son, survivors include a daughter, Ada Woodward Warner of Newtown Square; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Interment: May 8 at Norman Chapel at Spring Grove Cemetery. Memorials: Women's Service Guild, Goodwill Industries, 10600 Springfield Pike, Cincinnati 45215, Attn. JoAnn Armour.

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