Mary “Molly” E. Hodges Henshaw, 70, of Brunswick, Maine, died peacefully Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018.

She was born to the late George and Constance Southgate Hodges on Feb. 17, 1947, in Boston. Molly graduated from Pingree School in 1965 and studied art at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. She founded and ran Hodges Landscape and Design in Beverly Farms, MA for more than 20 years before retiring to Maine in 2000. Her life lives on in the gardens of legions of clients on the North Shore of Boston.

She married Weld S. Henshaw in 1998 at Essex County Club in Essex, MA, and they lived together in her home in Beverly Farms, MA before building their dream house on Bunganuc Road in Brunswick, Maine in 2000.

Nature was Molly’s church and religion. She was happiest in her many gardens and walking the beach with her favorite dogs, most recently Uma and Fanny and step grand-dog, Lilly.

She is survived by her husband Weld S. Henshaw of Brunswick, ME; step children Nat and Michelle Henshaw of Brunswick, ME, Hamzah and Ruheena Henshaw of Mansfield, MA, and Steve and Aziza Henshaw of Marlboro, MA; brother Jonathan Hodges of Manchester, MA; niece Laura Hodges Taylor of Weston, MA; step brother Richard Kauders of Kearney, NE; step sister Debbie Kauders Spangler of Boston, MA; and step grandchildren Nick, Ben, Lyse, Sumayya, and Ilyas Henshaw. She was pre-deceased by her step father Frederick Kauders of Wickenburg, AZ; her brother George Hodges, Jr. of Manchester, MA and the Philippines; and her nephew George Hodges, III of the Philippines. Special friends Kitty and Fred Galacar of Manchester were family too.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Coastal Humane Society, 190 Pleasant St., Brunswick, Maine 04011.

The family plans a celebration of her life on the shore in Brunswick, Maine in July. Burial will follow in the Henshaw family cemetery in Brunswick with an additional monument in Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, MA, the Hodges’ family site from the early 1600’s.