White Plains CitizeNetReporter - Remembering Renoda Hoffman.

WPCNR MR. AND MRS. AND MS. WHITE PLAINS VOICE. January 22, 2004: The following reader reminisces about Renoda Hoffman, White Plains historian who died January 6:

Ms. Hoffman in one of her last photographs with her beloved reenactors of White Plains Past. Photo by Carl Albanese. Used with permission.

Dear Mr. Bailey,

I recently had the wonderful opportunity to attend the funeral services of Renoda Hoffman in the most appropriate setting in White Plains, the historical Rural Cemetery. Surrounded by her family and all that loved her and respected her.

It was nice of you to remember Renoda Hoffman and write an article about her on your Website as well as mention her today January 14, 2005 on your White Plains television show.

You ask for suggestions in terms of what would be appropriate to name after her or to name a site after her in White Plains to commemorate Renoda Hoffman’s great historical contributions she herself has made to White Plains over her long illustrious life.

How about for starters just remembering her and her great work and contributions she unconditionally gave to White Plains. White Plains indeed should remember her, honor her, respect her and create her memorial here in White Plains. An original memorial, a historical memorial and one her own.

Despite the fact that I came to know her for a very short period of time back in 2003 through the White Plains Historical Society and Mr. Jack Harington at Purdy House, she is one remarkable individual that forever will be remembered and never forgotten.

She left behind a living legacy, a body of work that embodied her and all that she touched. Let us all remember that as we move through the passage of time and change never to return she gave us the passage of time and change through her incredible vision to live through the change and preserve that historical change for each and every generation to come in time.

Renoda Hoffman had a vision, a vision through an image, and image through a photograph a photograph through the passage of history. The history she lived, the history of White Plains. The History of Renoda Hoffman is White Plains.

So the most appropriate place to name after Renoda Hoffman would have to be original unique and one of a kind. That name should be to name Renoda Hoffman Mrs. White Plains, a place she loved, a placed she preserved, and a place she lived in and passed in.

Mrs. White Plains will forever live on as the legacy she so deservedly is honored for. A real special person in the hearts of all she touched.

In Memory of Renoda Hoffman, Mrs. White Plains, you will always be remembered never forgotten.

Love,

Carl Albanese & Family


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