{"id":18840,"date":"2020-09-02T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=18840"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:00:26","slug":"obituary-hopper-james-malcolm-jr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=18840","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Hopper, James Malcolm, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1947<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1947 Maroon Spotlight<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1947_Hopper_James_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"James Hopper\" \/><br \/>James Hopper<\/h2>\n<p>Football &#8217;44-&#8217;47; Wrestling &#8217;44-&#8217;45; Basketball &#8217;45-&#8217;47; Perryscope Staff &#8217;46-&#8217;47; Homeroom Vice-President &#8217;46-&#8217;47.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>James Malcolm Hopper, Jr.<\/h1>\n<h3>April 30, 1928 &#8211; February 28, 2001<\/h3>\n<p>\ufeffJames M. Hopper Jr., 72, Perry, OK, died at 12:50 a.m. Wednesday, February 28, 2001, at Perry Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Hopper was born April 30, 1928, in Purcell, OK, the son of James M. Hopper Sr. and wife, the former Myrtle G. West. He was a 1947 graduate of Perry High School and attended Oklahoma A &#038; M, now Oklahoma State University.<\/p>\n<p>He was employed as Quality Control Manger for Indiana Gear Works until he retired in 1989. He served in the United States Army. He was a member of the Perry Golf and Country Club, the Elks Lodge and the American Legion.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include four daughters and their spouses: Janet and David Thurman, Fairland, IN, Patricia and Terry Fitz, Shelbyville, IN, Debbie and Ron Bryant, Miltown, KY, and Betty Lou and Tim Maher, Waco, TX; two sons and daughters-in-law: Hubert &#8220;Bud&#8221; and Jody Hopper, Fairland, IN, and James M. and Rebecca Hopper III and Rebecca, Plainfield, IN; 15 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren; a sister and brother-in-law, Loleta and B. C. Smith; and four nephews.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Betty Jean (Hopper) Ford.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 3, 2001 at Brown-Sisson Chapel. Rev. Ron Weathers will officiate. Burial will be at Grace Hill Cemetery.  Memorials may be made to the Perry Memorial Hospital Foundation or American Cancer Society.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18965,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18840\/revisions\/18965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}