Hilda Mason...Everybody's Grandmother!
"Don't you have a hug for your Grandmother"? That's how Hilda Mason greeted this reporter and every other younger person she came across in her busy day.
We'll miss her.
A former School Board member and 22 year veteran of the DC Council, Ms Mason passed away on Sunday.
She joins her longtime best friend and husband "Charlie" who died just over a year ago at age 95. Who can forget Hilda on the Dias in the old District building during marathon legislative sessions with Charlie sitting in a chair on the front row--appearing to fall asleep.
No other couple has given this City as much when it comes to time, civil and social commitment. They were founders of the movement to declare DC a State, thus giving citizens voting representation on the Hill in both houses.
They also help found the law school at UDC, named after former Council Chairman David Clarke.
Hilda Mason was a giant of a grandmother!
posted by Bruce Johnson @ 6:24 PM
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Bruce, thanks. That's a lovely tribute.
Yes, Hilda would be up on the dais, always very dignified looking and nicely dressed, and Charlie would be sitting in the audience with his shirt pocket stuffed with papers, and, as you say, nodding off.
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