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Dr. Howard R. Hopkins, age 91, of Lawton passed away, Saturday, July 20, 2019 at his residence.
Dr. Hopkins was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on June 1, 1928 to Charles H. and Emma S. Hopkins. He grew up in North Philadelphia and worked in his father’s printing plant. He entered the United States Army in August of 1951 and was honorably discharged in 1953, having served in the Panama Canal Zone for eighteen months.
He earned a B.S. degree in Forestry in 1959 and a M.S. in Zoology in 1962, both from Penn State University. He attended Oklahoma University for two years and completed his Ph. D. degree in Zoology at Oklahoma State University in the spring of 1971. Dr. Hopkins began his teaching career in the fall of 1968 in the Biological Sciences Department of Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. He enjoyed his teaching because he felt he could make a difference in the lives of his students.
During the summer of 1987, Dr. Hopkins spent a very memorable time on safari with his son Kevin through Tanzania, thus fulfilling a lifelong dream. In August 1993, Dr. Hopkins married Jette Douglas, a native of Denmark. Jette is a water color artist and known in the Lawton Community as Tatiana Hopkins. Dr. Hopkins retired in the spring of 1996, after twenty-eight years of teaching at Cameron University. Since then, he and Jette have spent much of their time visiting art museums and galleries around the country and walking through their beloved Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, a place of renewal!
Dr. Hopkins is survived by his wife, Jette, of the home; his two sons, Charles R. Hopkins and wife Nicole and Kevin S. Hopkins and his wife Elizabeth; five grandchildren, Caitlin Hopkins, Cienna Hopkins, Nesya Hopkins, Amiel Hopkins and Selilah Hopkins; three step children, Lisbeth Douglas of Lawton, Henrik Nielsen, of Oklahoma City and Eugene J. Douglas of Albuquerque, New Mexico and extended family members Harriet Zuckerman; Stephanie Tombrello and family, Robert C. Merton and Vanessa Merton and family.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to The American Cancer Society, 1305 W. Gore Blvd, Lawton, OK. 73501. July 20, 2019
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