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Navy enlistment of 17 year old William Hopkins
25 years ago William Hopkins aged 17, son of Mr and Mrs Ford Hopkins of 408 Fletcher Avenue, enlisted in the navy and would depart Davenport on Tuesday for the naval training station at Farragut Idaho. Mrs Harold Gray and Mrs Fred Gray of 1091 Lucas Street and Barbara Gray of Iowa Street were visiting with Mr Gray’s mother on West Fourth Street.
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William Hopkins
Mrs. Ford Hopkins
Fletcher Avenue
Navy
Davenport
Naval
Faragut
Ida
Harold Gray
Fred Gray
Lucas
Barbara
Iowa Street
Wilma R. Barney
U.S. Army
Schick General Hospital
Clinton
Albert Barney
Main Street
St. Luke’s Methodist Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Martha Goad
Muscatine
American Association of University
Sui
Barry
Butch) Meerdink
Old’s Hall
Johanna Claussen
J. Cooke