GIBSON COUNTY, TN - Obituaries - Frank Hopper 1945 ======================================================================================== Submitted by: Audrey Hopper ========================================================================================== Frank Hopper Humboldt Chronicle Thursday, March 1, 1945 Mrs. Thelma Hopper, 114 Central Ave., Humboldt, received a telegram from the War Department Tuesday afternoon, February 27, informing her that her son, Pvt. Frank Hopper, 19, had been missing in action since February 10th, while serving with the Seventh Army on the Western Front. Mrs. Hopper has two other sons in service. Lieut. Charles Hopper is in training as a bombardier-navigator at a Texas Army Air Field, and Pvt. Thomas Hopper is in the Infantry and is now at a Port of Embarkation. Frank was sent overseas in November, 1944 and was stationed at a replacement center in Italy until around the first of February when he was sent into action. He was with a heavy weapons company. Frank was inducted into the Army in June, 1944, and received his short period of training at Fort Mead, Maryland, and Camp Blanding, Fla. before being sent into action. Frank was an employee of the Courier-Chronicle, coming to this office in September, 1941, as a Diversified Occupation student of Humboldt High School to learn the printing business. Frank was a young man of sterling character, and was truly a Christian. He, as well as his brothers, showed the results of the fine home training they received from a good mother. Frank Hopper is one of the best beloved of Humboldt's young soliders and many friends, as well as his mother and brothers, are praying that he may turn up shortly, alive and well. OBIT--- Pvt. FRANK T. HOPPER HUMBOLDT, TENN.----Oct. 28 Services for Pvt. Frank T. Hopper, son of Mrs. Thelma Hopper of Humboldt, who was killed in action in France, Feb. 10, 1945, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Central Avenue Christian Church in Humboldt, Rev. J.B. Porter officiating. Military services at the grave in Salem Cemetery, west of Humboldt. Private Hopper, a life-long resident of Humboldt, was in the printing business when he entered the service in June, 1944. He was a brother of Charles Hopper of Humboldt and Thomas Hopper, Kingsport, Tenn. He was 19.