Rebecca Hopkins

Rebecca Hopkins PORTSMOUTH - Surrounded by her children at home, Evangelist Rebecca Hopkins peacefully went to be with the Lord Sunday, May 23, 2010. She was 91. The former Portsmouth resident was born Aug. 26, 1918 in Scotland Neck, N.C., to John Thomas and Bessie Lee Clark Jones. Rebecca Hopkins was preceded in death by her husband, Douglas Montgomery Hopkins Sr. She is survived by two sisters, Vernetha Hart of Virginia and Annie Williams of North Carolina; two brothers, Clarence Lee Jones of Maryland and Louis Jones of Nevada; nine children, Juanita (Herbert) Anderson of Virginia, Geraldine Bullock of Virginia, Whilemenia Williams of Virginia, Douglas M. Hopkins Jr. (Collete) of Florida, Barry Hopkins of Washington, D.C., Elizabeth (Jan) Williams of Washington D.C., Harriet (Karl-Erik) Johansson of Sweden, Linda (Herman) Jones of Washington, D.C., and John Hopkins of Virginia; 16 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and spiritual children, Elijah and Saundra Thornton and Estelle Eppes. She was a faithful member of The Pentecostal Church of God in Christ in Blackstone, Va. She enjoyed going to church, reading her Bible, spending time with her family and friends, sharing stories of her childhood, working in her garden and caring for her two collies, Sandy and Candy. A memorial service will be held at Virginia United Methodist Assembly Center at 11 a.m. May 28 at 707 Fourth St., Blackstone, Va. A brief graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 29, at Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens, 4569 Shoulders Hill Road, Suffolk. W.E. Hawkes & Son Funeral Home of Blackstone, Va., is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be offered to the family at www. hawkesfh.com.