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Notes for Joan Coxe FLETCHER
Joan Coxe Fletcher [Lange] Hopkins 01 Aug 1931 - 18 Mar 2011 Joan Coxe Hopkins, 79, of Willisbrook Farm, Malvern. She was the daughter of the late W. Meade Fletcher of Washington, DC and Jane Gordon Coxe of Malvern. Mrs. Hopkins was born 01 August, 1931 and lived her entire life on her family farm in Willistown. She graduated from The Shipley School in 1949 and attended Pembroke College in Rhode Island thereafter. During World War II, Mrs. Hopkins served as a member of the Air Observer's Corps., a civilian organization which served the war effort by maintaining a 24-hour-a-day lookout for possible enemy aircraft in that pre-radar time. She married her first husband, Robert T. Lange in 1951. They were divorced in 1965. Mrs. Hopkins joined her mother in the family business of breeding and showing American Saddlebred Horses, for many years winning championships throughout the Grand Circuit ranging across the eastern half of the United States, including the Devon Horse Show, the Lexington Kentucky Junior League, and the National Horse Show in Madison Square Garden. In later years, with her second husband Warren B. Hopkins, whom she married in 1981, she developed a business breeding and racing Standardbred Horses. Their Willisbrook Stables won numerous races, with their greatest horses "Galdor" and "Sally-Ann Candor" as driven by the late, great Stanley Dancer. Mrs. Hopkins was for many years deeply involved in the restoration, and more particularly, furnishing and equipping, of Fairmount Park's "Lemon Hill" Mansion with the Colonial Dames of America, Chapter II. As Chairman of the Antiquarian Committee, she was responsible for researching the history of "Lemon Hill" and seeking to acquire original antique furnishings, paintings, china, and glassware to restore the mansion to its appearance at the time it was built in 1800. An avid gardener, Mrs. Hopkins' gardens around her home were well-known in the area. In her last years, she was engaged in the restoration of the late 19th-century walled gardens that had formerly been maintained around a now-lost 18th century mansion near her home. Survivors include her son, Robert T. Lange, Jr., two daughters, Ann and Sarah Coxe Lange, her son-in-law William Shoemaker, and her grandchildren Rachel C. and Gordon P. Shoemaker all of Willisbrook Farm, Malvern. Mr. Hopkins died in 2000. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to The Colonial Dames of America, Chapter II, Lemon Hill Mansion, Sedgeley and Lemon Hill Drives, Philadelphia, 19130. www.lemonhill.org Services Private with a reception at Mrs. Hopkins' home, 670 Sugartown Road, Malvern, Pa.
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