Blanche Abercrombie Hogg (1885 – 1954) was born on March 11, 1885, to William H. and Mary Alice Hogg, the middle of three children. After her father’s death by suicide when she was 15, she became a clerk in addition to attending school in order to help support her family. By 1912 she had moved to Baltimore, where she met James McCoy, Sr.. They were married on May 2, 1912, in Delaware. Together they had two sons, James Jr. and William Carson.
Mrs. McCoy served as the Matron of the Home from 1928 – 1940, with the same gap of a few months in 1938 when the McCoys were removed from their posts by the Board of Trustees and reinstated upon their appeal to the ITU convention. As with her husband, not much is known about Blanche McCoy’s life following their departure from the Union Printers Home. She was visiting Tacoma, WA, in 1954, where she became ill and died four months later on October 12 of that year. She and James McCoy were both buried in Pennsylvania.