Obituary of Medria Cleo Hopkins, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana


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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal;
Wednesday, July 29, 1998


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Medria Cleo Hopkins

Medria Cleo Hopkins, 79, of Olla, died at 11:20 p.m. Thursday, July 23, 1998,
at Hardtner Medical Center in Urania.

She was a homemaker and member of Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church. She was born
November 27, 1918 to the union of Thomas J. and Eva Lorraine Cruse Eubanks.

Services were held at 2 p.m., Sunday, July 26, at Pleasant Ridge Baptist
Church with Revs. Joel Johnson and Tommy Hollis officiating.

Interment followed in the Chickasaw Cemetery near Olla under direction of
Kinner and Stevens Funeral Home of Jena.

Survivors include two daughters, Tommie Elaine Sanders of Olla and Eva Louise
Yule of Carthage, Texas; two sons, Smith W. Hopkins of Olla and James W.
Hopkins of Seminole, Okla.; four sisters, Theo Cockerham of Summerville,
Laverne Coates of Shreveport, Tommie Jeanette McCarver of Baton Rouge and
Helen Cockerham of Jonesville; two brothers, Eddie Coolman and Olan Coolman,
both of Olla; 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Johnny Burl Kirkham, Donald Roark, Buddy Barnett, Charles
Walters, Reed Walters, and James Cupples.