Sara Elizabeth REED

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Norcatur Dispatch
February 29, 1940

Mrs. Sarah Hoppes

Sarah Elizabeth Reed was born at Union Mills, Iowa, February 18, 1883. She was the first child born to John and Mary Reed.

She passed away at her home near Lyle, Kansas, February 22, aged a57 years and 3 days.

When Sadie, as she has always been called, was five years old, her parents seperated and she was brought to her grandfathers A.B. Reed's home near Norton, Kansas, where she grew up.

She taught school six years and on March 1, 1908 she was united in marriage with Henry Hoppes and most of their married life has been spent near Norcatur.

To them were born seven children, Marvin, Clarence, Kathryn, Ruth, Casper, Florence and Ernest, who with their father, mourn the loss of a faithful wife, devoted mother and their neighbors a kind friend.

Her father and mother predeceased her several years. Surviving her are her husband and children, one brother Clarence Reed, of La Cross, Wisconsin, several half brothers and sisters, an aunt, Mrs. Ida Dobbie of Houston, Texas and a number of cousins and many, many friends who are grieved at her passing.

She was a patient sufferer for several years but never complained.

"A precious one from us has gone,
A loving voice is stilled,
A place is vacant in our home
That never can be filled."

Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church, Sunday, February 25, conducted by Rev. Jongema, and burial made in the Colony, Maple Grove Cemetery.

The pallbears, neighbors, were, Claude Wickham, Preston Shick, Arthur Chambers, Merrit Reid, Archie Van Gundy and Berd Cozad. Singers also neighbors were, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Van Gundy, Mrs. Arthur Chambers and (illegible) Enfield; Pianist, Mrs. Blanche Temple. Funeral director, H. R. Anderson.
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Sara married Henry Ephraim Hoppes, son of Ephriam Hurl Hoppes and Martha C. HELLING, on 1 Mar 1908. (Henry Ephraim Hoppes was born on 6 Jul 1876 in Verdon, , Nebraska, USA and died on 31 Jul 1949.)