This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hopper, Kellams, Horton Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5603 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 14 Nov 2002 Hopper LEXINGTON – Funeral services for Riley Hopper, 89, were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002 at First Baptist Church in Lexington with Dr. Henry Adrian III of First Baptist Church Lexington officiating. Burial followed in the Lexington Cemetery. He died Monday, Nov. 11, 2002 in the Scott & White Hospital in Temple. Mr. Hopper, a Lexington resident since 1998, formerly of Weslaco, was born June 19, 1913 in English, IN to Charles Edward and Murl (Kellams) Hooper. He and Bonney Horton were married July 31, 1943. Mr. Hopper, a warehouse manager for Allied Van Lines, was a veteran of World War II serving in the Army Air Corps. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Lexington, the Men’s Sunday School Class and a Kiwanis Club member in Weslaco. Mr. Hopper was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Bonney Hopper on Aug. 29, 2002. Surviving are: Son, James Hopper and wife Ginger of Sealy; daughter, Trudy Holland and husband Gary of Lexington; brother, Deward Hopper and wife Rosa of Palmyra, IN; sisters, Mamie Ruth Laswell of English, IN, Helen Butler and husband Robert of Noblesville, IN and Norma Eickelberger and husband Everett of Okachobe, FL; grandchildren, Stephanie Hopper of Maui, HI, Jason Hopper and wife Rachel of Castle Rock, CO, Craig Holland of Salt Lake City, UT and Jodie Rexroat and husband Jeremy of Venus; many nieces and nephews. Pallbearers were George Young, John Young, Don Young, Gary Holland, Jeremy Rexroat, Kenneth Baines and Cecil Rexroat. Honorary pallbearers were the Men’s Sunday School class of First Baptist Church.