Cemetery Photo

Adair County, Oklahoma

Photographed & Submitted by: Martha Real

LaDonna Ilene Hopkins

© The Stilwell Democrat Journal

March 12, 2008

Submitted by: Martha Real

LaDonna Ilene Hopkins
August 1, 1938-March 2008

Funeral services for LaDonna Ilene Hopkins, age 69, will be held on Monday, at 10:00 AM, March 10th, 2008 at the Hart Funeral Home Chapel of Stilwell with Reverend Kermit Mullins officiating.

Interment will follow at Ewing Chapel Cemetery in Stilwell, OK.

Donna will be available for visitation Sunday from 1:00 PM until 6:00 PM at the Hart Funerl Home Chapel in Tahlequah.
Services are under the direction of Hart Funeral Home of Tahlequah, OK.

The sons of Donna are serving as pallbearers and are as follows, Ivan May, son-in Law, Leonard Walker, Bucky Hopkins, Steven May, David May, and Ervin Hopkins Jr. Honorary pall bearers include Jake Walker, Steve Hopkins, Johnnie Hougland, Lester Hougland, and Tommy Jackson.

LaDonna or Donna as her friends knew her, was born on August 1st, 1938 in Indiana the daughter of William Levi and Agnes (Wheeler) Rumple.
She attended school in Indianapolis, IN. On April 4, 1962, she married Ervin "Hoppy" Hopkins in Las Vegas, NV. Together they raised six children. Donna worked for seventeen years for the Tahlequah Public School System as a cook to the many hungry children attending school here. She dearly loved her job and loved all the children she encountered daily. An excellent cook, she made incredible strawberry pie, meatloaf, and the best clam chowder.
Whenever she had five minutes, she liked to read a good book, watch a little television, or sit and crochet. She loved her family dearly and spent as much time as she could with her children, grand and great grandchildren.
In January of this year, she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. She will be greatly missed by her many friends and family and all the many children who called her grandmother. She was of the Christian faith.

Those preceding Donna in death include her parents, three brothers; Gene, Jimmy, and Leroy Rumple and two sisters; Rose Royer and Linda Tolin.

Those left behind to cherish her memory include her husband of 47 years, Hoppy Hopkins of Tahlequah, six children, Ivan May of Aurora, CO, Emma Walker and her husband Leonard of Tahlequah, Bucky Hopkins and wife Karla of Tahlequah, Steven May and wife Stacey of Keys, OK, David May and wife Pat of Highland, CA, and Ervin Hopkins Jr of Placentia, CA, ten beloved grandchildren, nine adored great grandchildren, many nieces, nephews, cousins, and a host of friends and loved ones.