Graveside services for Maudie White Hopkins, 93, of Lexa will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 at Sunset Memorial Park. Rev. Tommy Jacobs will officiate. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at Roller-Citizens Funeral Home.
Hopkins, born Dec. 7, 1914 in Baxter County to the late Dora Acklin and the late Ethel Berry Acklin, died Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008 in Helena. She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Lexa Baptist Church.
She leaves two daughters, Ida Mae Chamness and husband, Fred of Manassas, Va., and Opal Byrd and husband, Robert of Helena-West Helena; a son, Melvin Lee White and wife, Shirley of Helena- West Helena; sisters, Lucille White of Calico Rock and Nora Sinnerman of Lone Rock; a brother, John Acklin of Lone Rock; grandsons, Gary Chamness, Roger Chamness, Robert D. Byrd and Brian White; granddaughters, Brenda Bennett and Donna Holt; 14 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, former Confederate soldier, William Cantrell; and husband, Winfred White.
Pallbearers will be Roger Chamness, Robert D. Byrd, Robert Bennett, Brian White, Kaleb Holt and Ryan Holt.
Memorials may be made to the Lexa Baptist Church, 213 Cedar St., Lexa, AR, 72355.
Roller-Citizens Funeral Home will direct services. Friends may sign the online guestbook at www.rollerfuneralhomes.com.