Obituary of  ELLEN BLAKE HOPKINS, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 902 Kilgore Court, Allen, TX, 75013 
(No relation.)

From The Jena Times/Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  December 6, 1956

Headline:  Funeral Services for Mrs. Ellen B. Hopkins are Held at her Home

Funeral services for Mrs. Ellen Blake Hopkins, 82, who died in a Monroe 
hospital in Monroe at 3;30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, were held in her home in 
Olla at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov 23.

Officiating ministers were the Rev. T. T. Edwards of the Pinehill Baptist 
Church, the Rev. J. A. Jones, pastor of the Olla Methodist Church, and the 
Rev. V. T. Bradford, pastor of the Chickasaw Free Methodist Church.

Interment was in the Blake Cemetery under the direction of Riser and Son 
Funeral Home of Columbia.

Serving as pallbearers were her nephews, W. D. Holloway, Roy Blake, Bryant 
Strozier, O. A. Wilson, Owen Hopkins and Robert McCartney. 

Survivors are two daughters, Miss Myrth Hopkins and Miss Joyce Hopkins; two 
sons, R. H. Hopkins of Tucson, Ariz., and J. D. Hopkins of El Paso, Texas; 
two sisters, Mrs. E. L. Harveston of Grayson and Mrs. R. E. Adams of 
DeRidder; one brother, Floyd Blake of Olla, 6 grandchildren and 9 
great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Hopkins was a member of a prominent family of LaSalle.  In 1893, she was 
married to W. H. Hopkins who passed away in 1946.  She was a member of the 
Chickasaw Free Methodist church, and until the last few years when she was 
inactive because of ill health, she gave her very best to her family, her 
church, and community.

Out-of-town friends and relatives attending the funeral of Mrs. Hopkins were 
Mrs. H. H. Haynes and daughter of DeRidder, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Mott of North 
Little Rock, Ark.; Mrs. Willie Shuman and Miss Katherine Shuman, Mr. and Mrs. 
Jack Keith, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis LaHood and children, Mrs. Thomas N. Antoon, 
Mrs. George LaHood, Mrs. J. L. Gray, Mrs. George Saybe and Mrs. Joe Mitchell, 
all of Alexandria; Mrs. Guy Hopkins and sons, H. G. and Edward Roy, of New 
Orleans; Mrs. Doyle Flowers and daughter Nancy of Vivian, R. H. Hopkins of 
Tucson, Ariz., J. D. Hopkins of El Paso, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Harveston 
of Grayson and Mrs. R. E. Adams of DeRidder.