Lady Thelma Hochoy, the wife of the late Governor-General Sir Solomon Hochoy died at the age of 99 yesterday. An official of the Lady Hochoy Home, Cocorite, which is dedicated to assisting special children, said she would have been 100 in September. She had a touch of Alzheimers. She was born in St Madeleine.
Hochoy was the last governor of T&T and the Solomon Hochoy Highway was named in his honour. Thelma Hochoy was widely regarded as a humanitarian who reached out to the differently-abled children and youth. Lady Hochoy established the Lady Hochoy Home to help disabled children. She also opened a home in the heights of Guanapo in the late 1970s. She assisted with the rebuilding a new RC Church in Las Cuevas and another in La Fillette. She will be regarded as a great patriot.
Diego Martin resident Clayton Morle, 83, who knew the Hochoys said: "Thelma was quite a nice lady. I think she was a little Chinese girl from somewhere in Blanchisseuse. "I knew her when she lived at the quarters around Dundonald Street. Solomon was then Colonial Secretary. He was a civil servant who used to work in labour. I knew them when I went to audit the books. ML
