Marie passed away peacefully on January 1, 2025, at Mississauga Trillium Hospital.

Funeral Services will be at Turner and Porter Peel Chapel
2180 Hurontario Street, Mississauga on Monday, January 13, 2025;
Visitation at 2:00 p.m.
Service at 3:00 p.m. to be followed by a reception.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to a charity of your choice.

Marie was predeceased by her parents, Vibert and Bertha Hodgins, and by her granddaughter, Rachel Marie Bodrug. Marie is survived by her sister, Audrey McMurray, her four children, Stephen Bodrug (Georgina), Nancy Pez (Randy), Mark Bodrug (Joanne), and Doug Anglin-Bodrug (Kristin), and seven grandchildren, Zachary, Reannan, Jacob, Lindsay, Claire, James, and Jack.

Marie was a member of Christ First United Church in Clarkson (Mississauga) and attended regularly over sixty years.

Marie was born in Toronto and was raised there with her family on Evelyn Avenue. She attended Humberside Collegiate Institute. Her parents offered to pay for one year of post-secondary education which limited her options, so she chose to go her own route and went on to get her physiotherapy certificate at a College in Nova Scotia. Physiotherapy was her lifelong career.

Marie met David Bodrug at summer camp where they were both camp counsellors. They married in 1956. Marie stayed home to raise her four children and kept busy taking them to hockey, swimming lessons, piano lessons, and dance lessons for Nancy. Marie was not a fan of household chores but enjoyed sewing and knitting clothes for herself and her children. She even hooked a large rug that was in the living room for years.

Summers were spent at the family cottage that Marie’s parents had purchased in 1952 and later in a cottage next door that she and Dave built. The family also piled in to the family station wagon and headed to the west or east coast of Canada, camping along the way. There were also a couple family vacations to Florida and Disney World.

Marie loved her children unconditionally and supported all their endeavors. She was extremely tolerant and with an ‘Open Door’ policy she enjoyed the mayhem that resulted from the kid’s rock music whether live or on the stereo. She gave up the basement, dining room or garage to the kid's hobbies. There was always a parade of her children’s friends in the home, and she thrived on their company.

As soon as her children were old enough, she returned to physiotherapy and worked at several hospitals in the Toronto area.

Marie was quite active in sports in her youth and did a bike ride with friends around the Maritime Provinces after she graduated as a physiotherapist. She was also quite adventurous in her mid-life. She has always intended to get her BSc so attended the University of Toronto and go her bachelor’s degree in 1995. She also purchased two run down homes in Toronto, renovated them herself and flipped them. When she grew tired of working at Toronto hospitals she worked in Cochrane, Ontario for a brief time. She was invited to start up a physiotherapy department at the Palestine Hospital in Amman, Jordan. She agreed and lived there for four years. When she returned, she worked doing homecare until she retired at 65 years old.

Marie was also an avid traveller and saw much of the world while she was able. She was fearless in her travels and went wherever she wanted to, sometimes by herself, but mostly with her church group or other friends. She traveled to Nanaimo annually to spend time with Nancy and her family.

Marie adored her grandchildren and was always pointing out the strengths and charms of each child.

Marie spent her later years at Bough Beeches Retirement Residence along with her sister, Audrey. She found herself a boyfriend in the home and remained in good spirits until the end.