Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hopkins, Ruby J. 1953
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The Belding Banner-News, Thursday, December 24, 1953


The death of their young mother brought sadness to the Cleo Hopkins family on 
Thursday, when Ruby J. Hopkins, age 29 years, passed away at University 
hospital in Ann Arbor where she had been a patient for five days.  She was 
admitted to the Greenville hospital on December 1st and transferred to Ann 
Arbor on December 12th.

Ailing for the past seven years from rheumatic fever, the young mother, the 
former Ruby Mead, daughter of Ervin Mead of this city, was born on September 
7th, 1924, in Isabella county, near Mt. Pleasant.  The young woman was married 
to Cleo Hopkins in this city on June 20, 1942.  He survives, as do five 
children; a son, Virgil, age 10; a nine year old son, Ervin; a daughter, Mae, 
age eight, and four month old twins, Gerald and Julia, all of this city; the 
father, Ervin, of W. May St.; four brothers, Otis of Owosso, Harvey and Wilbur 
of Lansing, and Henry of Portland; three sisters, Mrs. Elsie Rowley of 
Grayling, Mrs. Margaret Vreeland of Winn and Mrs. Minnie McBridge of Mt. 
Pleasant.

Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Huffman 
chapel, with burial being made at River Ridge cemetery in this city.  The 
officiating clergyman was Mr. Joseph Burridge and pallbearers were Mearl 
Hopkins, Earl Hopkins, Wilford Hopkins, Harry Johnson, Jr., William Main and 
Martin Jeffery.


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