Clarence Butler Hoopes

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Posted By: Jane Hoopes Robinson (email)
Date: 2/27/2015 at 12:01:12

Clarence Butler Hoopes

Born in Muscatine in the family home just east of High Prairie Methodist Church on July 31, 1895, Mr. Hoopes died on March 8, 1989. He spent his entire life in and around Muscatine and attended Star School in Lake Township, Muscatine High School, and Brown’s Business College.

He worked first as a hired farm man and through the Great Depression as a salesman for Swift and Company. In later years he had a small business selling to neighborhood grocers, sold real estate and farm insurance, was recognized as a lifetime honorary member of the Muscatine realtors in 1977, owned a trucking business, and was actively involved in farming.

A member of the First United Methodist Church, he was a long-time, loyal member of the Masonic Lodge.

Clarence was the son of John Andrew and Martha (Butler) Hoopes. Three days after his birth, his mother died. Several years later his father married Cornelia Hitchcock, and she was the loving mother he knew.

On September 3, 1931, Mr. Hoopes married Lilly Rose Schmidt, daughter of August and Clara (Irwin) Schmidt. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, his daughter Jane Robinson (Mrs. James), three grandchildren–Stephen Andrew of Indianapolis, Indiana, Anne Elizabeth, and David Schuyler of South Bend, Indiana–and his brother J. Wendell Hoopes of High Prairie, Muscatine.

Blessed with a good sense of humor, he cared deeply for family, friends, and community.

Mr. Hoopes was preceded in death by his parents, his step-mother, and two half-brothers–Leslie and Ernest.

Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery.