Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hoppough, Decker Jr. 1915
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The Belding Banner, Wednesday, November 3, 1915

Decker Hoppough died in the city hospital Wednesday of last week, where he had 
been taken to undergo an operation for an affliction that had troubled him for 
some time and the pain became so intense in the last few weeks that he 
consented to go to the hospital in the hope of obtaining relief.  Dr. DuBois 
of Grand Rapids was called to perform the operation finding the trouble much 
more serious than was expected.  The news of his death proved a shock to his 
many friends and relatives who had hoped that the operation would prove 
successful and beneficial.

The deceased was the son of the late Decker B. Hoppough and Lydia Hoppough of 
Smyrna.  He was born in Canadice, Ontario county, New York, July 29, 1852 and 
came with his parents to Otisco at the age of eleven years.  After working on 
the old farm for a number of years, he went into business with his brother, 
George Hoppough, in Smyrna, remaining there until his removal to North Dakota 
on a homestead near Laramore, where he resided for fourteen years.  

Mr. Hoppough returned to Michigan twenty years ago last April and settled on 
the farm south of Cook’s Corners.  “Deck” Hoppough, as he was familiarly 
called, had a host of friends and possessed a jovial, cheerful and hopeful 
nature.  He was ready at all time to assist his friends and bear his share of 
the burden that fell to him.  He and his wife have sang for many a social and 
fraternal gathering and at funeral services.  He was a good friend and 
neighbor, a loving father and husband and always the life of the family 
gatherings.

Before going west he married Miss Lizzie Campbell, who survives him and, also, 
three sons, Charles, Ward and Fayette.  Mr. Hoppough also leaves four 
brothers, George, Frank, Clark and Mark, all of this county, and four sisters, 
Mrs. Hattie Moe of Smyrna, Mrs. Carrie Coleman of Kinisely, Kansas, Mrs. Addie 
Hall of Lansing and Mrs. Alice Peterson of Smyrna.

The funeral was held at his late home Sunday afternoon, Rev. A. J. Blair, 
preaching the sermon, with the burial at the Smyrna cemetery, under the 
auspices of the Masonic fraternity, of which Mr. Hoppough was a loyal member.  
Robert Olds, master of the lodge, gave the ritualistic work at the burial 
service in an impressive manner.  The funeral was one of the largest ever held 
in the township, more than 150 Masons being present.


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