Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hopkins, Permelia 1956
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Belding Banner-News, 23 Aug 1956

Permelia Hopkins Buried Wednesday.

Miss Permelia Hopkins, 85, passed away Sunday, August 19 at Belding hospital. 
The daughter of Charles and Arminta Hopkins, she was born July 21, 1871 in Handy
township, Livingston county near Fowlerville and came with her parents to this
city in 1893.  She was a seamstress for many years.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church for 63 years, the longest
membership of any of its members, active in its auxiliary societies and she was
treasurer of the Sunday school for over 40 years.

She had been in a wheel chair for several years but lived alone at 111 E.
Congress street.  Her health had been failing over a period of years but she
still lived by herself and did much of her housework.  Her sister Lottie, who
formerly lived with her passed away several years ago.

Her only survivors are a niece, Mrs. Henrietta French and a grand nephew, Robert
French of Ionia and cousins.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday at 2:00 o’clock at the Fitzjohn Funeral
Home with her pastor, Rev. Frank Gillett officiating and burial was in the
family lot in River Ridge cemetery.  Pall bearers where Wes Porter, L.M. Berry,
Don Cornell, Harold Larson, Carroll Slayton, and Clarence Todd.


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