Frank Willis Hopkins 1932-1947

HOPKINS, HYATT

Posted By: Penny Rathbun (email)
Date: 5/2/2021 at 14:32:25

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Services for Frank Hopkins on Friday

Funeral services were held at Castana community church on Friday afternoon, July 18 for Frank Willis Hopkins’s, Castana youth who drowned while swimming in Lake Tulaby, Minnesota on July 14, while vacationing there with his family.

Rev. A. C. Hughes of Cascina officiate it at the services, using as his topic, Treasures - Safekeeping and hands of love and God. Mrs. Ned Perrin and Mrs. Ruth Pennington saying “asleep in Jesus“ and “in the garden“. They were accompanied by at the piano by Mrs. Edward Sabatka.

Pallbearers were Frank Heffner, Harold Johnson, Howard Anderson, Herman Boslaugh, Charles Wm. Riley and Herbert Block. Interment in the Graceland cemetery, Blencoe, with arrangements in care of the Pearson Funeral Home.

Frank was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hopkins of Castana was born January 11, 1932 at Blencoe and died Lake Tulaby Lake, Waubun, Minnesota on July 14, 1947 at the age of 15 years. The lad had gone swimming with some other boys in the lake and develop cramps, according to the word Received by Castana relatives.

The youth moved with the his parents from Blencoe to Castana in February, 1939. He was a student in the casting a school and a member of the community church there. He was of a kind and helpful disposition and was loved by all that knew him.

Survivors include his parents, four sisters, Joyce, Janice, Margaret Lou and Karen; two brothers, James and Gordon and a nephew Jimmy; and three grandparents. Mrs. Frank Hopkins, Sr of Blencoe and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hyatt of Onawa , many other relatives and many friends.
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Castana Youth Drowns In a Minnesota Lake

Word was received here of drowning of Frank W. Hopkins, age 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hopkins, Castana in Lake Tulaby. It is stated that the boy developed cramps while out swimming with a number of other boys.

Lake Tulaby where the Hopkins family were vacationing as is about 25 miles southeast of Mahoney.

The boys mother will be remembered in Onawa as Mary “Babe” Hyatt, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hyatt.

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