 Birth | January 12, 1911 26 25 |
 Birth of a sister | Gertrude Hopkins October 23, 1912 (Age 21 months) |
| Birth of a brother | Charles Edgar “Charley” Hopkins November 29, 1914 (Age 3 years) |
 Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 4 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Birth of a sister | Effie Ethel Hopkins January 25, 1917 (Age 6 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 5 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 6 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Birth of a brother | John Lendel Hopkins March 10, 1919 (Age 8 years) |
 Census | January 26, 1920 (Age 9 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Nellie May Hopkins May 5, 1921 (Age 10 years) |
| Birth of a brother | George Robert Hopkins August 5, 1923 (Age 12 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Wilma Jean Hopkins December 2, 1925 (Age 14 years) |
| Death of a sister | Dovie C Hopkins January 2, 1928 (Age 16 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 18 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Census | April 8, 1930 (Age 19 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Mary J Groves June 26, 1934 (Age 23 years) |
 Marriage | Leroy F Bordewische — View this family September 28, 1935 (Age 24 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | Benjamin Franklin Carneal September 6, 1937 (Age 26 years) |
| Census | April 4, 1940 (Age 29 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 30 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Death of a brother | Thomas Franklin Hopkins November 19, 1948 (Age 37 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 38 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Death of a husband | Leroy F Bordewische November 15, 1959 (Age 48 years) |
| Death of a father | Marion Oscar Hopkins May 23, 1961 (Age 50 years) |
| Death of a mother | Fannie Carneal October 28, 1961 (Age 50 years) |
| Death of a brother | Marion Oscar Hopkins Jr March 21, 1967 (Age 56 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 34 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
 Death | January 30, 1973 (Age 62 years) |