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Additional HOPKINS Surnames in BETHEL Cemetery
HOPKINS, James AlbertHOPKINS, Dovie EHOPKINS, Elsie MHOPKINS, Elvin RussellHOPKINS, Bobby DaleHOPKINS, Infant DaughterHOPKINS, Floyd RHOPKINS, James RoyHOPKINS, Vinnia HesterHOPKINS, Fred HHOPKINS, Richard LHOPKINS, VicieHOPKINS, Robert JewellHOPKINS, Sarah EHOPKINS, William FerrellHOPKINS, Albert JacksonHOPKINS, Richard AlbertHOPKINS, FelixHOPKINS, Charles JesseHOPKINS, Edna MHOPKINS, James AHOPKINS, Bruce LHOPKINS, Charles L Additional HOPKINS Surnames in OUACHITA County
HOPKINS, Eliza JHOPKINS, WilliamHOPKINS, SophiaHOPKINS, BlancheHOPKINS, J G "Snooks"HOPKINS, Ida MayHOPKINS, Charlie RHOPKINS, Mattie CHOPKINS, WilliamHOPKINS, SophiaHOPKINS, MaryHOPKINS, GeorgiaHOPKINS, Linda SueHOPKINS, Herman Neal (Photo)HOPKINS, Herman NealHOPKINS, John RandolphHOPKINS, Alice MarieHOPKINS, James W "Jimmy" (close up)HOPKINS, James W "Jimmy"HOPKINS, Nellie MarieHOPKINS, Mary EHOPKINS, Jesse EHOPKINS, MaudeHOPKINS, Jesse E (close up)HOPKINS, Maude (close up)
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Submitted: 2/25/12 • Approved: 9/15/21 • Last Updated: 6/29/23 • R655130-G655130-S3
Albert - November 6, 1896 - March 2, 1957
Dovie - May 12,1899 - March 3,1972
James Albert HOPKINS, 60, president of the Arkansas Farmers Union and general
manager of the Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Company, died at his home, 2924
Gaines Street, Little Rock, late Saturday. Although he had been ill several
weeks, he returned home recently from the hospital and death was unexpected. He
was born November 6, 1896, at Thornton, the son of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Hopkins
and the late Richard Lambert Hopkins. Besides his mother, other survivors
include his wife Mrs. Dovie Elizabeth Hopkins; two daughters Mrs. Terrell
Wallace of Baton Rouge, La. and Mrs. G.B. ìPeteî Bryan of Hampton; two brothers
Fred S. Hopkins and Richard L. Hopkins, both of Thornton; three sisters Mrs.
W.T. Raney of Pine Bluff, Mrs. Everett Lindsey of Camden and Mrs. Trudie Simpson
of Midland, Texas and six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral
services were conducted at the Assembly of God Church at Bearden at 2 p.m.
Monday by the Rev. Jewell Murray, Rev. H.G. Hatton and Rev. J.W. Farrell.
Burial was in Bethel Cemetery by Benton Funeral Home of Fordyce. Mr. Hopkins
became associated with the Arkansas Farmers Union in April 1944, and under his
leadership the organization increased from less than 1000 to more than 35,000.
He attended rural schools in Calhoun County and graduated from a normal school
at Woodberry in Calhoun County. He taught school for a time and enlisted in the
U.S. Army at the outbreak of WWI and served more than four years. Following his
discharge, he engaged in the insurance and mercantile business and joined the
Rural Resettlement Administration in 1933 as Calhoun County supervisor. He also
served as supervisor of Union County from 1941 to 1944, at which time he
resigned to come with Farmers Union. He was a teacher and superintendent of the
Sunday School at the Bearden Assembly of God Church. He was a member of the
Hampton Masonic Lodge, the Little Rock Consistery and was a Shriner. He was a
member of Roy V. Kinard Post of the American Legion for more than thirty-five
years.
Contributed on 2/25/12 by Jeanetteponder
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