Barbara Hopkins: West Roxbury Resident, Worked at Harvard Medical School

Photo Credit: William J. Gormley Funeral Home

Barbara Hardenbergh Hopkins, 84, of West Roxbury, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 4, according to a recent obituary on the Gormley Fueneral Home website.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Oct. 18 at 11 a.m. at the Allin Congregational Church, 683 High St. in Dedham. Family and friends are invited to attend; a reception and light refreshments will follow the ceremony.

The following is an excerpt from her obituary:

“She was born Barbara Jane Hardenbergh on June 17, 1930, in Kingston NY. She was the daughter of William and Marion Hardenbergh. She attended the Katharine Gibbs School in New York City and married Charles Irving Hopkins in June 1949. They settled and brought up their children in and around Albany, NY, where Barbara was a housewife and worked in her husband’s insurance agency as a secretary. The family moved to Largo, Florida in 1970. She and Charles divorced in 1971, after which she brought up and supported her four younger children alone. She moved with them to Boston in 1980, where she enjoyed a long and successful career as an administrative assistant at the Harvard Medical School.”

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