Steven Eugene Hopkins, who spent more than 35 years at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, died Friday, July 26. He was 90.
Hopkins was born Feb. 17, 1929, in Mount Horeb to Walter and Beulah Hopkins. After graduating from Mount Horeb High School, Hopkins went on to serve as a U.S. Air Force airplane mechanic stationed in Alaska during the Korean War.
After the war, Hopkins met Frances Zopfi on a blind date. They were married in the summer of 1956 and made their home in Madison, where they had four children and six grandchildren.
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Hopkins earned his journalism degree from UW-Madison and joined the Wisconsin State Journal in September 1957. He remained with the paper for his entire career before retiring in February 1994.
During more than three decades at the newspaper, Hopkins served as a copy editor, reporter, feature writer, state editor and outdoors columnist. Considered by colleagues to be an “old-school newspaper guy,” Hopkins’ children say he would like to be remembered as a newspaperman.
