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Grant Earl Hopkins © Enid news and Eagle 03-23-2017 Submitted by: Glenn
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The funeral for Grant Hopkins, age 85, will be at 1 p.m. Friday, March 24, 2017, at Willow View Methodist Church, with Rev. Lesly Broadbent officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow in Pleasant View Cemetery near Jet. Arrangements are by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home. Visitation with the family will be 6-7 Thursday evening at the funeral home.
Grant was born to William and Wilma (Wells) Hopkins on April 20, 1931, in Jet, and passed away Tuesday, March 21, 2017, in Enid. Grant graduated from Jet High School and attended college at Tonkawa, where he played basketball and football. He then joined the U.S. Air Force, serving for 22 years and earning the Bronze Star and several other awards. His tours of duty included Izmir, Turkey, 1956-57, Takaleigh, Turkey and Vietnam, 1968-69.
On December 25, 1952, Grant married Etta Webber in El Dorado, Kansas. After retirement from the Air Force, they moved to Jet, where he worked and retired from the Jet Co-Op. They moved to Enid, in 1994, where Grant worked for the Sheriff Department. He was a D.A.R.E. Officer for 14 years. Grant was a volunteer at Our Daily Bread and member of Jet Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife Etta; children Gail Brown and husband Norman of Oklahoma City, Jerry Hopkins and wife Carla of Enid, Glenda Aebi and husband Steven of Enid, and Gary Hopkins and wife Gwen of The Colony, Texas; four grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; six great-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren; three brothers, Billy Hopkins of Guymon, Loren Hopkins of Durango, Colorado, and Lynn Hopkins of Ponca City; and sister Lyda Walker of Ponca City.
Grant was preceded in death by his parents, brother Donald, and sister Lynda Andersen.
Memorials may be made to Our Daily Bread. Guestbook available online at www.andersonburris.com.
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