Gloria Draper Hodgson, daughter of Frances Mary Rogers and Delbert Morley Draper, grew up in Salt Lake City and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Utah. After college she worked in Washington D.C. for a Utah Senator before joining the U. S. Foreign Service. For the next 16 years she lived abroad with favorite posts being Cairo, Saigon, Zagreb and Caracas. On an assignment in Hawaii she met her husband, Kaspar Hodgson. They made their home in Maine where Gloria became a noted local artist. She loved Maine and lived in Bremen, then Portland, Maine, for a total of 52 years. She died in Salt Lake City, Utah. Gloria had an infectious smile, cared deeply about the world, and was loved. Her life will be celebrated at a private family service.
Published in Salt Lake Tribune on Aug. 18, 2019.
Gloria was cremated; her grave marker in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in Salt Lake City is a cenotaph.
Published in Salt Lake Tribune on Aug. 18, 2019.
Gloria was cremated; her grave marker in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in Salt Lake City is a cenotaph.
Gloria Draper Hodgson, daughter of Frances Mary Rogers and Delbert Morley Draper, grew up in Salt Lake City and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Utah. After college she worked in Washington D.C. for a Utah Senator before joining the U. S. Foreign Service. For the next 16 years she lived abroad with favorite posts being Cairo, Saigon, Zagreb and Caracas. On an assignment in Hawaii she met her husband, Kaspar Hodgson. They made their home in Maine where Gloria became a noted local artist. She loved Maine and lived in Bremen, then Portland, Maine, for a total of 52 years. She died in Salt Lake City, Utah. Gloria had an infectious smile, cared deeply about the world, and was loved. Her life will be celebrated at a private family service.
Published in Salt Lake Tribune on Aug. 18, 2019.
Gloria was cremated; her grave marker in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in Salt Lake City is a cenotaph.
Published in Salt Lake Tribune on Aug. 18, 2019.
Gloria was cremated; her grave marker in the Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in Salt Lake City is a cenotaph.
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