Robert “Bob” Hopkins

LAUREL — Robert “Bob” Hopkins, 84, Laurel, died Oct. 4, 2020, at Faith Regional Health Services, Norfolk.

A limited public visitation will be from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday, at United Methodist Church, Laurel.

Graveside services will be 2 p.m., Thursday, at Oakdale Cemetery, Oakdale. Pastor Darren Timberlake will officiate. Military Honors will be provided by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7603, American Legion Post 170 and American Legion Riders.

Social distancing guidelines will be followed. Masks are strongly suggested.

Brockhaus-Howser-Fillmer Funeral Home, Norfolk, is in charge of arrangements.

Robert E. “Bob” Hopkins, son of George Washington Allen Hopkins and Thelma Gertrude (LaBorde) Hopkins, was born June 28, 1936. He graduated from Neligh High School in 1954, and worked on installing natural gas pipeline right out of high school. Bob joined the U.S. Army Jan. 25, 1955, and was discharged Jan. 24, 1958. Bob worked construction driving truck in Omaha and Lincoln. He married Marilyn R. “Mickey” Bliss Nov. 20, 1960, and they had two children, Shannon R. and Jeri Kay. Bob and Mickey lived in Neligh for eight years. He began working for Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas in 1960. The family moved to Laurel in 1968 and Bob retired Aug. 8, 1995.

Bob is survived by his wife, Marilyn “Mickey”; children, Shannon R. (Lois Tomasiewicz) Hopkins and Jeri Kay (Richard) Fiebelkorn; grandchildren, Lindsay (Phillip) Doerr, Brooke (Brady) Surface, Brett (Brittany Sage) Hopkins, and Blissanne Fiebelkorn; and siblings, Lois Sprout and Alvin (Nadine) Hopkins.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, William Hopkins; and sister, Barbara Hughes.