Margaret A. Warren

MARGARET HODGES WARREN Margaret Hodges Warren died at Fairview Nursing Home in Hudson, NH on April 7. She was born in Reading, PA on July 3, 1915. After primary school she attended Abbot Academy, George School, the University of Louisville, and the University of Cincinnati before earning her Ph. D. in History of Art from Heidelberg University in Germany. In 1938 she married Roland L. Warren, and they spent several years in Alfred NY. She taught German at Alfred University, was an accomplished horsewoman, gave riding lessons, and appeared in many horse shows. She was a founder of the Alfred Friends Meeting and of Friends World College on Long Island. During extended stays overseas, she and her husband performed peace work for the American Friends Service Committee. An avid cellist, she played in the Nashua Symphony as well as in orchestras in Alfred, New Rochelle, White Plains, and Tarrytown NY and in Hohenheim and Berlin Germany. She took formal training in violin building and repair from the Mittenwald School staff, and for many years had a violin building and repair shop in Tyngsboro MA. She taught German at Rivier College in Nashua and was a founder of the Nashua Arts and Science Center. For several years she gave workshops on violin maintenance and repair at the renowned Fiddle Festival in Union Grove, North Carolina. Her violin shop moved to Andover NY when the couple moved there in 1980 upon her husband’s retirement. In 2000 she and her husband moved to The Arbors in Bedford NH, and later to Fairview Nursing Home in Hudson. She is survived by her husband Roland Leslie Warren of Hudson NH, her son and daughter-in-law David Hardy and Katherine Warren of Riverside CA, her daughter Margaret Robin Warren of Merrimack NH, her grandson Michael Jonathan Warren and his wife Roberta of New York City, and her great granddaughter Leila Forbes Warren. Another daughter, Ursula Washburn Warren of Berlin, Germany passed away in August, 2000.