Henrietta Hood

Henrietta Hood McCullough, born April 25, 1925, to Maria and John Hood in Chester, SC, passed away peacefully on June 14, 2023, after a brief illness following surgery due to a fractured hip. She was the last surviving member of her family of eight siblings, five brothers and three sisters. For most of her 98 years she was amazingly healthy and strong so it’s not surprising that even following her recent hip surgery she just wanted to “get up, get dressed, and get going”. She attended Alexander Street School and Second Ward High School in Charlotte and began working straight out of high school as one of the youngest employees at the Shell Plant. She was always recognized as a dedicated and dependable worker and for many years worked for Miss Mary Davis, a popular caterer as one of her lead helpers. She cleaned the medical office of Dr. Lester Brooks and his partners for many years and performed domestic work in the home of many Charlotte families for whom she held fond memories of her. She loved her family and was particularly close to her mother, being one of the youngest of the nine children. She was happy being at home and helping out there, especially when her older brother’s wife died two days after childbirth and their baby daughter, Anne, came to live with them. Henrietta loved her work with families and was proud to have worked into her late 80’s before moving to Charlotte Square Assisted Living with the help of Jean Sullivan and Henrietta’s family in Charlotte, Mary and Marvin Jones, Wilbert Martin, and Jeffrey and Lisa Nash. In her new home there she enjoyed helping the staff by watering all the plants, feeding the fish and even ironing for other residents until she got caught. Henrietta was an amazing woman in many ways. She was fiercely independent, proud of her strong work ethic, trustworthy, intelligent, resilient, a lover of plants and animals, thrifty, loved to laugh and tell of her experiences, was great at working jigsaw puzzles and Bingo, adored orange sodas, required very little but loved her things that she had worked to earn, was critical of lazy people, stood up for herself and would take no flack off of anybody. She loved to joke around people and at 98 was still walking faster than many much younger people. One of the families she worked for and has remained in her life for 46 years, the Sullivan family, has been honored to love and care for her especially for the past 11 years. Henrietta leaves to cherish: Jean Sullivan, (the overseer), one nephew, Wilbert Martin, nieces; Mary Martin Jones, Henrietta Martin, Annie Martin, great nieces; Pamela Martin Frazier, Vinia Jones, one great nephew, Jeffrey Nash, cousins and family; Caldwell, Wright, Robinson Harris,Lauren,Williams, Greenfields, Eddie, Clee, Gray, Friday, Johnson

Henrietta Hood

April 25, 1925 - June 14, 2023