Edna B. Hendricks-Kaminski, who spent her senior years volunteering for seniors, died Friday in the health-care center at Swan Creek Retirement Village, where she lived since 2006.
She would have been 102 on May 8. She was in declining health the last two weeks, her son, Ray Hendricks, said.
She did secretarial work as a young woman. And she worked in a department store when she and husband Yaro Hendricks lived in Florida 16 years.
But she amassed an extensive volunteer record back in Toledo. She put in 18,000 volunteer hours from 1974 to 1984 at the Senior Center, 2308 Jefferson Ave., her son said.
Then-Mayor Doug DeGood named her to the board of Toledo's senior centers in 1981. Later in the 1980s, she took part in the federal Retired Senior Volunteer Program and the Area Office on Aging.
She helped with activities from 1985-94 at Browning Care Center, where her sister, Florence, lived. She and her second husband, Alex Kaminski, in 1992 became charter residents of independent living at Swan Creek. There she was in charge of euchre and pinochle - and taught both to the uninitiated - and helped plan monthly parties for assisted-living residents."She was a caring individual who liked to help people," her son said. "That was her joy."
A native of South Toledo, the then Edna Milling attended Waite High School and Davis College.
She and Mr. Hendricks married in 1928. He died in 1972. She and Mr. Kaminski married in 1976. He died in 1993.
Surviving are her son, Ray Hendricks, two granddaughters, and four great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Neville Funeral Home, where the body will be after 3 p.m. Tuesday.
The family suggests tributes to Epiphany Lutheran Church, where she was a member, or St. Stephen Lutheran Church or the May Elliott/Palestine Chapter, Eastern Star.
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