Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1919 — DIES SUDDENLY IN CHICAGO [ARTICLE]

DIES SUDDENLY IN CHICAGO

MRS. MARY HOPKINS PASSED AWAY IN CHICAGO FRIDAY EVENING. • w Word was received here this Saturday morning from George K. Hollingsworth; of Chicago, telling of the death at his home Friday evening of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Austin Hopkins, who had been in very feeble health for the past sev- I eral months. Death came at the I age of about seventy yean. Mrs. Hopkins is will known to our I people, having been born and reared I ip this city, where she lived - until about ten years ago, when she moved I to Chicago with the Hollingsworths to make her home. The deceased was the daughter of John and Sarah Austin, numbered I among the very earliest of Rensselaer pioneers, and the wife of Ludd I Hopkins, whose name is' intimately associated with the early days of Rensselaer, he operating a mercantile business here for many years. To that union was born four children, Mrs.'George Hollingsworth, of Chicago; Louis F. Hopkins, of Chicago, and Senior Hopkins, of Minneapolis. One child, Ludd, Jr., preceded her to the grave. . One brother, W. B. Austin, of Chicago, and one sister, Mrs. Dr. Ensminger, of Crawfordsville, also* survive her. Mrs. Hopkins was an invalid for many years prior to her death, the greater part of which time she was confined to a wheel chair. How-1 ever, she bore her suffering cheerfully and patiently until death came to relieve her. A kind and loving mother, wife and sister, her . passing will cause genuine sorrow in the hearts of all who knew her. 1 The remains will arrive in this city at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon and will be taken to the Presbyterian -church where brief services will be held by the Rev. J. B. Fleming, after which interment will be made in Weston cemetery beside the graves of her husband and son.