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Extracted from The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, LA)
Wednesday, August 16, 2000

Melissa Regina Hopkins

Funeral Services for Melissa Regina Hopkins, 18, of Newellton were held Tuesday at Mulhearn Funeral Home Chapel in Winnsboro with the Rev. Cook officiating.

Interment followed at Harris Cemetery near Crowville under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home of Winnsboro.

Miss Hopkins died Sunday, August 13, 2000 at her residence. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Wesley F. Hopkins.

Survivors include her parents, Jeanette and Jimmy Hopkins of Newellton; Douglas and Shirley LaBorde of Winnsboro; one brother, Jimmy Hopkins Jr. of Newellton; numerous aunts and uncles; paternal grandmother, Faye Smith of Jena; maternal grandparents, Virgil and Jean Fussell of Newellton; Mamie Coleman Bamburg of Newellton.

Pallbearers were Rick Grey, Curtis Billmeier, James Bamburg, Roy Ezell, Charles Loyd and James Finley.