Married name: Hoopes, born ‎1928‎, 95 or 96 years

Born ‎23 Dec 1916 Marysville, Ohio, died ‎30 Jan 2003 Marysville, Ohio‎, 86 years. Occupation: ‎LAWYER Marysville, Ohio; Lawyer
JAMES TODD HOOPES
James Todd Hoopes, 86, a lifetime resident of Marysville and local
attorney, died Thursday, Jan. 30, 2003, at his home.
A Union County lawyer from 1947 until his retirement in 1999, he
specialized in probate and estate matters in his office in the Union
Block Building adjacent to the downtown square in Marysville. He was a
1934 graduate of Marysville High School and received a bachelor of arts
degree from the College of Wooster in 1938 and a law degree from Harvard
Law School in 1941. In 1948, he received a master's degree in political
science from Ohio State University while he also taught. He was a member
of the Union County Bar Association.
He was a member of the Marysville First Congregational United Church of
Christ and a former member of the First Presbyterian Church of
Marysville where he served as clerk of session for 25 years. He was
mayor of Marysville during the mid 1950s and once served on the city's
board of affairs. He was a former secretary for the Union County Chamber
of Commerce and in 1952 was named one of the founding board members for
Memorial Hospital of Union County.
He formerly served as chairman for the Marysville Salvation Army unit.
He assisted in the establishment of the Union County Historical Society
and was the organization's first president. He was a veteran of the U.S.
Army, serving in World War II in the truck regiment of the Quartermaster
Corps. He was stationed in Persia, delivering supplies to the Russian
border and later made transports to Germany. He was a member of American
Legion Post 79 in Marysville.
He was born Dec. 23, 1916, in Marysville to the late Dr. Carl W. and
Nelle G. McCloud Hoopes and was predeceased by a sister, Gene Shaffer.
He is survived by his wife, Johnnie Nell Ray Hoopes whom he married
March 24, 1962, in Columbus; a son, Lt. Cmdr. John McCloud (Allison)
Hoopes, U.S. Navy, of Stuttgart, Germany; a grandson, Robert Todd
Hoopes; a twin sister, Jane Orr, M.D., of Evansville, Ind.; a
sister-in-law, Rebecca White of Kentucky; nieces, Jan Hefti of
Springfield, Ill., and Betsy Holland of Flagstaff, Ariz.; a nephew,
William Shaffer of Belchertown, Mass.; and many great-nieces and
-nephew.Ann Allen read a note from Todd Hoopes ' sister asking that her donation be used for the improvement of McCloud Park.

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