Anthony Wayne Hopkins was born on Monday, June 24, 1924, at Ischua, Cattaraugus County, New York. His parents were Allan Wilson (Friday, June 10, 1887 - Tuesday, October 5, 1971) and Flora May Clayson Hopkins (Friday, April 21 1905 - Friday, July 10, 1981). His parents were married in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York on Tuesday, September 11, 1923. Anthony was the oldest of their five children. His father moved his family to Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania whee his younger brother, Oscar Donald Hopkins had earlier moved with his family. Alan Hopkins, Anthony's father, worked as a laborer in a plating works.
Anthony lived with his parents through the 1930's and most of the 1940's until he married Elaine Lucille Buettner (Wednesday, June 29, 1932 Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania - Sunday, August 31, 1997 Vallejo, Solano County, California) in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania on Monday, February 16, 1948. During their marriage they had five children, three sons and two daughters.
Anthony enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private on Thursday, March 18, 1943. He was released from his military service on Thursday, October 18, 1945. His father, Alan, was working as a maintenance man at Continental Rubber. The 1948 Erie City Directory lists Anthony as being a Continental Rubber clerk. Through 1962 he worked as a Continental Rubber Works shipping clerk.
In 1963 Alvin moved from Erie with his family from Erie to Napa, Napa County, California. He passed away on Friday, January 26, 1979, in Solano County, California. Place of burial is unknown.
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