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Margaret "Gogi" Joan Hodder

Berkeley, CA, USA

April 25, 1968 - January 16, 2021

Apr 25, 1968 - Jan 16, 2021

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Cheetah (Patty) Castaneda-Davis

Gogi - though I did not know you very well nor for very long, I did feel a deep connection to you due to our mutual love of Mosaic. I was honored to be invited into your sacred circle to hold you during your last phase of life and transition. It was inspiring to witness you during these last few months and I was in awe of your strength, grace and authenticity through it all. You taught me a lot about living from how you showed up and I will forever be grateful that you so lovingly and willingly shared that time with us! I hope to keep those lessons close to my heart for years to come.

I will continue to send love and peace to all those who loved you and miss you and may be hurting during this time.

May your soul continue in a mosaic of love, joy and peace through your next journey.

Much love ❤️!!!

Cheetah

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Anna Brock

Thank you to Gogi’s family and friends. I so appreciated being able to follow her journey and to get in touch with her over the last year. I am sorry for your loss. I am thinking of you and sending love.

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Anna Brock

2015, Malcolm X Staff Appreciation Lunch

Gogi

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Anna Brock

I’m so glad I knew you. You were part of my Malcolm X family. Our kids were in the same grades and often ... Read more I’m so glad I knew you. You were part of my Malcolm X family. Our kids were in the same grades and often the same classes. We ... Read more I’m so glad I knew you. You were part of my Malcolm... Read more

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Alan Hodder

please convey our sadness and sympathy to the family and friends of Gogi Hodder, a most remarkable lady, taken too soon. Alan, Vivien Hodder and family in Weymouth, UK.

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Ray hodder

We the Hodder family here in Dorset England have warm memories of Gogi and family visiting, if we are able to achieve a fraction of Gogi's good work we would be content. Our thoughts and hearts are with you all at this sad time. Ray Linny Ben Eva and Josef.

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Andrea Despotes

I had the great privilege of getting to live with Gogi - we were college roommates and shared an apartment after graduation. But, for most of our relationship, we were physically separated by more than 2000 miles. We always made sure to connect in person when we could, but the majority of the time we spent together in recent years was by phone. This may be why one of my most treasured memories of Gogi is my memory of her voice. No matter the utterance, there was something about the tone and lilt of Gogi's voice that conveyed -- in a way that words cannot capture, but I will try -- the authenticity, compassion, humility, courage, curiosity and openness that she embodied. Gogi, I love you!!! Thank you so much for sharing a little bit of life on earth with me!

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Andrea Despotes

Yosemite Nat'l Park

Wonderful memories of a camping trip that we took with Gogi and Darby

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Darby Hoover

Tom Haw

Tamara Haw says: I will always remember how you made time for me during coffee hour. You were busy watching two kids but wanted to stay in touch. We had a nice brief connection and I felt you cared. You loved watching how Tom Haw and your kids enjoyed each other. It was obvious that you wanted to help them stay connected. In such simple ways, you showed me how important little things are for our community happiness. We will all miss you.

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Tom Haw

Hello Gogi,
We miss you. You were such a positive spirit in our lives and those of your children. Fortunately, Noah and Nico are here to remind us that your presence has not left us. We think of you every day. I go forward with the process of living with you in my mind. I see your face. The intense gaze, usually with a bit of a twinkle or perhaps a tear, in your loving eyes.
Your zest for living made me reflect on the collective energy of our souls. It fires me up to go forward each day, even when I’m sad. We are, in large part, what we put forward in life. And you were a locomotive of love. You charted your course with the tenacity that inspired all of us. Many will accurately recount your impressive list of accomplishments.
I am particularly moved by how your spirit inspired all of us to seek what is good for our community.
It takes a special person to role model the search for collective love. You are that person.
You are a blessing for us all. And, in particular, your dear children, Noah and Nico. I will continue to love and embrace you. Here's another of those special hugs.
Your friend,
Tom Haw

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Beverly Smrha

During these past few months, Gogi taught me so much about how to live ......... and how to die........ I am so grateful to experience her deep strength ..... and expansive loving.........
During these months, we texted a lot. I will always remember the day she invited me to meet with her outside the front house so we could talk face to face for the last time. I treasure that memory.

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Jacques De Jager

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Marieka Brown

I remember having a wonderful day at the beach, having lunch, and then taking a swim. What we didn't realize... Read more I remember having a wonderful day at the beach, having lunch, and then taking a swim. What we didn't realize until a little ... Read more I remember having a wonderful day at the beach, having... Read more

Marieka Brown

2011, "Jellyfish Beach"

Wonderful Memories of Our 2 Families Exploring Together

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Joyce Dorado

2019, Stinson Beach, CA

Gogi at our annual Women’s Weekend

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Joyce Dorado

For many years now, a group of us who have been dear friends for decades have gathered on MLK weekend in ... Read more For many years now, a group of us who have been dear friends for decades have gathered on MLK weekend in a house on Stinson Beach... Read more For many years now, a group of us who have been dear... Read more

Joyce Dorado

Here is a story related to the hats that we are wearing, one of the many fond memories I have of Gogi. In January, 2017, the year of the Women’s March when upwards of 5 million people marched for gender equality, civil rights, and social justice, we spent our annual Women’s Weekend knitting pink pussy hats that many of us would don for these marches. Gogi had to leave the weekend earlier than most of us, but she was determined to finish her hat before she left, come-hell-or-high-water. I will always remember with fondness and laughter the determination with which she knitted her hat. In her final bit of time with us before she needed leave for home, she was sitting next to me, breathing heavily with effort and concentration (and sweating a little). When she hit a snag and her stitches didn’t line up perfectly, she just carried on, embracing the fact that it would not be perfect but that it would get done. If you ever get a chance to see it up close, it will be clear that it was knit with passion. It has unexpected twists, turns, and asymmetries. But is uniquely wonderful, just as our beloved Gogi was.

Here is a story related to the hats that we are wearing, one of the many fond memories I have of Gogi. In... Read more Here is a story related to the hats that we are wearing, one of the many fond memories I have of Gogi. In January, 2017, the year... Read more Here is a story related to the hats that we are wearing,... Read more

Joyce Dorado

1996, San Francisco, CA

Gogi as a mad hatter at Rob's 33rd birthday party, with Darby and Joyce

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Joyce Dorado

2017, The Dorado-Teigen front porch, Berkeley, CA

Gogi as a penguin, with Joyce, Halloween, 2017

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Sarah Prudhomme

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Alyson Yarus

This is love I gave to Gogi.

She gave me permission to text her a video of my cat, every day, and I did that for 260 days. Here's one for all of you - may it make you smile.

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Lara Mendel

Deb Jue

Darby Hoover

The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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Alyson Marie

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Lara Mendel

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Sherry Weston-Vigil

I am sorry not to have had more time to know her. She was so nice to me. I am sorry not to have had more time to know her. She was so nice to me. I am sorry not to have had more time to know her. She... Read more

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