Steve Hopkins died in August 1998, an 85-year-old retired newspaper executive and community leader.
He capped a 41-year career with the Marshfield News-Herald when he retired in 1978. He started working there in 1937, one year after graduating from the University of Missouri with his journalism degree. Hopkins worked through the ranks to be named advertising director and eventually became publisher in 1968.
Under his leadership, Hopkins guided the newspaper through various stages of technology, from typewriters to computer editing systems and from hot metal to offset, cold-type production.
