Dorothy Hopkins Eager

Dorothy Hopkins Eager died on October 27, 2011, at her daughter's home in Atlanta, GA, of natural causes. A resident of Valdosta for over fifty-five years, she was active in numerous community organizations.

She was born in Baltimore, MD on July 8, 1920, the daughter of Roger Brooke Hopkins and Josefa Matilda Noel Crosby Hopkins. She was a collateral descendant of Johns Hopkins, the founder of the The Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. After her parents died in the late 1920s, she was raised by Juliette M. Guilloteau. She graduated from Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and Gill Secretarial School.

She married William G. Eager, Jr., a Valdosta native, in 1941, and moved with her family to Valdosta in 1955. In the early 1960s, she and her husband established the Valdosta office of the brokerage firm, Robinson-Humphrey & Co., now Stifel, Nicolaus, where she worked for 20 years.

A communicant of Christ Episcopal Church since the 1950s, she served on its Altar Guild. She was an initial member of the Board of The Annette Howell Turner Arts Center. She was longtime member of the Mystery Ball Club and supporter of the Valdosta Symphony. Into her eighties, she regularly volunteered at the Community Soup Kitchen and the Valdosta Food Bank. She was a Colonial Dame. A member of the Valdosta Country Club, she was an active golfer.

She lived in Paris as a child and traveled widely as an adult—including to Machu Picchu in Peru in 1938, to China in 1982 and throughout Europe on numerous trips between the 1960s and 2008. She also opened her home to foreign exchange students at Valdosta State University and foreign visitors to Valdosta.

She is survived by her son, Robert C. Eager, and daughter, Josefa N. H. E. Beadle, eight grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. She was
preceded in death by her husband and her son, William G. Eager III.

A funeral service will be held at Christ Episcopal Church, 1521 N. Patterson St., Valdosta, on December 10, 2011, at 1 p.m. A private family committal of the cremains will be held on the family lot at Sunset Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, a contribution may be made to:
Christ Episcopal Church, 103 East College Street, Valdosta, GA 31602
Community Soup Kitchen, 601 North Lee St., Valdosta, GA 31601
Valdosta Food Bank, 1411 Harbin Circle, Valdosta, GA 31601
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Funeral Home:
Carson McLane Funeral Home
2215 North Patterson Street
Valdosta, GA
US 31602