Mary Sanders Hopkins

Mary was preceded in death by her husband Paul Hopkins, her parents Dr. Albert Godfrey Sanders and Prof. Mary Lewis Sanders, her brothers Dr. John Sanders, Albert Godfrey Sanders Jr. and Dr. Samuel Sanders, her beloved granddaughter Faith Reagan Bush, and John Robert Suddoth.

Mary is survived by her children Robert and Susan Suddoth, Marilyn and Jim Isaminger, Patricia and Mike Acton; her grandchildren Misty Crumley and Jonathan Suddoth, her great-grandchildren Robbie Crumley, Bryce and Hayden Stickney; her sister-in-law Maxine Sanders, nieces Mary Shipp Barr and Deborah Laufer; her great nephew Jonathan Barr.

Also, her beloved caregivers Lisa Carrington-Story, Tanisha Carrington Foster, and Carrington Associates Barbara Black, Issis Dixon and Pelecia Pitts.

Mary was born in Jackson, Ms. where she attended Central High School and Millsaps College.

During the Second World War she worked for the U.S. Army Air Corp Officers Clubs in California and New Mexico.

Mary was then employed by the Mississippi School Supply in Jackson.

She retired after 16 years of employment with The Bookkeepers bookstore in Mountain Brook, Al.

Mary volunteered for many years delivering meals for the Meals on Wheels organization.

Along with her husband Paul she also donated her time at the Firehouse Shelter in Birmingham as well as serving meals on Christmas day at Children’s of Alabama.

Mary and Paul Hopkins were active supporters of The Exceptional Foundation.

She was a longtime active member or Edgewood Presbyterian church in Homewood, Al. where she served as a Deacon and Elder, and received a Presbyterian Woman Honorary Lifetime Membership Award.

Mary will be remembered by all that were blessed to have known her as a kind, caring, loving, courageous, determined and generous Godly woman.

A celebration of life will be held at a later date; the family suggests memorials to Edgewood Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Home for Children, or Community Food Bank of Central Alabama.