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Woodward – The funeral for Joseph Harvey "Joe" Hopkins, 83, will be at 10:30 AM Monday at the Mooreland United Methodist Church.
Dr. Mark Davis will officiate. Burial will be in Mooreland Cemetery under direction of Billings Funeral Home.
The casket will be open at the funeral home in Woodward.
He was born September 8, 1909, at Lebanon, Missouri, to Charles Rice and Cardelia Frances Hopkins and died Thursday, April 8, 1993, at the Golden Age Nursing Home in Mooreland.
He had attended a country school and in 1921 moved with his parents in an immigrant railcar to Quinlan, settling on a farm southeast of there. He attended Quinlan schools.
On May 20, 1932, he married Mildred Pauline Bonefiel at Selman. They lived and worked on his father's farm. In 1935, they moved to Quinlan where he opened a grocery store which he sold in 1942. He then worked for the Santa Fe Railroad.
In 1946, the couple moved to a farm southwest of Quinlan, then in 1950 moved to Mooreland where he started the Conoco Service Station, later releasing it. He opened Hopkins Shoe Mall in 1960, retiring in 1970.
He was a member of the Mooreland United Methodist Church, the Elks Lodge, Woodward Golf Club, Woodward and Mooreland Chamber of Commerce, Oddfellow Lodge at Quinlan and Mooreland. He has also served on the Quinlan school board.
Surviving are his wife; two sons, Keith of Monroe, Louisiana, and Denny of Woodward; five grandchildren; and three great – grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, two sisters and one son.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the church, the nursing home or charity of the donor's choice.
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