Obit: Hopfer, Robert Eugene (1908 - 1963)

 

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Surnames: Hopfer, Barr, Patterson, Kurth, Kelly

                       

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) October 3, 1963

 

Hopfer, Robert Eugene (2 August 1908 - 29 September 1963)

 

Robert Eugene Hopfer, 55, of Neillsville, died here Sunday following a short illness.  Funeral services were held Wednesday at 11 a.m. from St. Mary’s Catholic Church with the Rev. Fr. Bernard T. Kelly officiating. Burial was made in the parish cemetery.

 

Mr. Hopfer was born August 2, 1908, in Carrollton, Pa.  He was the son of Mrs. Clara Hopfer and the late Thomas Hopfer.  He attended school in Pennsylvania and at the age of 17 joined the navy, in which he served for 23 years.

 

He came to Neillsville in 1946 and was employed by the O & N Lumber Company for several years before accepting a position with the city water utility, by which he was employed at the time of his death.

 

His marriage to the former Jessie Barr took place in May 14, 1938, in San Diego, Calif.

 

Surviving are his wife; four children, Robert E. Jr., of Milwaukee, David of the Marine Corps on Okinawa, Nancy and Susan, at home; his mother, Mrs. Clara Hopfer of North Point, Pa.; two sisters, Mrs. Herbert (Dorothy) Patterson of North Point, Pa., and Mrs. Norman (Henrietta) Kurth of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and two brothers, Gervase Hopfer of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Emmeran Hopfer of Wichita, Kans.

 

Mr. Hopfer was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and its Holy Name Society.  A general rosary service was said Tuesday evening at the Georgas Funeral Home on E. 4th Street.

 

 


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