Northwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society - Key Finder
Spring 1997
Vol. 18 No. 2
The Mooreland Leader
June 26, 1980
—Obituaries-
Funeral services for Leo J. Hopper 69, were held Tuesday June 24, in the Mutual Christian Church. Dr. G. L.
Messenger, pastor of the Woodward First ChrIstian Church, and Rev. Frances Smythe, pastor of the Mutual
church, officiated.
Interment was in the Dunlap Cemetery under direction of Good Samaritan Funeral Service.
Leo John Hopper was born. August 16, 1910, on a homestead southeast of Mutual. He spent few years of his childhood in California and Arizona and then returned to Mutual where he graduated from Mutual high school. For 59 years he made his home on the ranch southeast of Mooreland.
On November 26, 1930, he was married to Martha Maulsby. They had recently purchased a home at 1030 Ridgecrest in Woodward and Mrs. Hopper will be making her home there.
Hopper was a member of the Mutual Christian Church. He passed away June 21 in the Shattuck Memorial Hospital, Shattuck, after a lengthy illness.
Survivors include his wife, Martha, of the home; mother, Mrs. Hazel Kenney of Lamar, Colo.; one brother, Floyd Hopper of Prague; two sisters, Mrs. Juanita Hudson of Golden, Colo., and Mrs. Velma Soupene of Woodward, several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and other relatives.
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David B. Johns
David B. Johns, 80, of Amarillo, Tex., died June 16. Funeral services were held June 18 in the Amarillo First Baptist Church with Dr. Winfred Moore, pastor, officiating.
Burial was mad in Memorial Park Cemetery by Boxwell Funeral Home.
Johns was born in Longford, Kans., June w7, 1899. He came to Oklahoma with his parents in 1900 and has lived in Amarillo the past 41 years.
He was a retired Santa Fe clerk, working 49 years for the railroad. He was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Rose-Mary; three daughters, Billie Nell Collins, Rosemary Kelly and Carole Branagan,
all of Amarillo; four sons, Darrel Johns of Amarillo, Charles D. John of Phoenix, Airz, Clarence S. Rice of San Antonio, Tex. , and James F. Rice of’ Fort Worth, Tex., and one brother, John Johns of Jones; three sisters, Dora Pyle and Anna Hopkins of Moore’land and Mary Crumbrine of Pampa, Tex.; 14 grandchildren and five great grand.children.
Those attending the David Johns funeral in Amarillo; Tex., were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hopkins, Quinlan; Mrs. Beulah Johns, Woodward, John Johns, Jones, and Sherry McDowell, Mooreland.
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