Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hopwood, Sarah December 19, 1939
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, December 21, 1939
Mrs. Sarah Hopwood, 81, for 38 years a teacher at Belding high School, died at 
Belding city hospital late Tuesday after a short illness.  Funeral services 
will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Methodist church with the Rev. William 
Blanding officiating.  The body will lie in state at the church from 12:30 
until 2:00.  Burial will be in Greene cemetery.

Mrs. Hopwood was born in Wayne, N.Y. in 1858 and came to Michigan four years 
later.  She was graduated from Ionia high school in 1875 after completing 
grade school work at Lyons, Prairie Creek and Lowell.  Following her marriage 
to Edwin Howe in 1877 her husband continued his education at the University of 
Michigan, later practicing medicine at Chicago and in Ionia county.

Following Mr. Howe’s death, the deceased was marred in 1903 to Hiram Hopwood.  
She came to Belding school in 1895 as second grade teacher, after being 
graduated from Western State Teachers college.  Mrs. Hopwood continued at 
Belding until 1983 when she retired at 75 from the professions.  She was a 
very active member in the Methodist church and was also affiliated with the 
Belding Legion post auxiliary and WCTU.

Surviving are the husband; a daughter, Mrs. Ethel Moorman of Irvington, 
Alabama; and a son, Leonard Howe of Grand Rapids.


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