The Acknowledgement

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to you, our

family and friends for your outpouring of love and support
during this difficult time. Your calls, cards, visits and acts of
kindness have been of great comfort to us. With Gods grace
and mercy, your prayers and presence, we will get through this
moment of bereavement. Please continue to pray for us as we
rest on Gods word that weeping may endure for a night but joy
cometh in the morning.

Home Going Celebration For

Flora McKitric Hopkins

September 30, 1918 June 27, 2016

Pallbearers
Nebulum McKitric
Jason Routt
Jaire McKitric
David Routt
Christopher Brown
Kevin Marshall

Pallbearers
John D. McKitric
Gilford S. McKitric
Charles E. Withers
George C. Marshall
Paul L. Withers
William Marshall

Known for Excellence. Trusted for Value.

1025 E. McMillan Street - Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
(513) 251-6200

Friday July 1, 2016

Visitation 5:00 p.m. / Service 6:00 p.m.
Brown Chapel AME Church
2804 Alms Place
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Rev. James H. Stowe, Officiating

The Obituary

The Order of Service

Flora McKitric Hopkins was born in Burgin, Kentucky, on September 30, 1918, to
the late Charles and Millie Bess McKitric. Flora was next in line to her younger
sister Viola, who passed away at an early age. Flora was brought up in a Christian
home, along with her ten brothers and sisters, and some of their children.

Organ Prelude..................................................James Julius

After graduation from Bate High School in Danville, Kentucky, Flora followed an
older brother, Gilford, to New York, where she worked as a housekeeper and
babysitter. Though she liked being there, her mother was not having that, and
"made" her come home. So she packed up her things and went back to the country,
only to escape again to the big city of Toledo, Ohio. By this time, Flora was calling
the shots and finally made her way to Cincinnati, where most of her siblings now
live.
Flora worked at Sontag Dry Cleaners with her oldest sister Sally before
moving on to work in the laundry at the old General Hospital, now known as
University Hospital. Always staying close to her family, she eventually moved into
a duplex home with her sister Sally and brother Henry. It is there where she and
her sisters prepared delicious meals Sunday after Sunday following Brown Chapel
morning services. Flora served on Stewardess Board #1 and served and attended
until her health began to fail.

Parting View..............................................................Family
Selection...........................................................................Choir
Scripture.................Psalm 23..........................Jairon Robinson
Prayer........................................................................Kenneth Payne
Acknowledgements....................................................Brown Chapel
Family Tributes....................................................(2 minutes please)
Solo..............................................................................Maleika Huff
Eulogy.................................................................Rev. Elmer Martin
Benediction.........................................................Rev. Elmer Martin

Flora met and married James C. Hopkins, the perfect man for her, and for us. This union
lasted forty-nine years, until his passing in 2013. Though no children were born to this
marriage, she loved his three children as though they were her own, and they loved her the
same way. Flora and JC loved fishing, and she could outdo her male counterparts on the
lake! The world's best fisherwoman enjoyed catching and eating some of the best fish the
Ohio and Kentucky lakes would yield. Also, a Cincinnati Reds fan, Flora would watch the
games, whether on TV or at the ballpark. Her special nephew John D. McKitric sat with
her nightly following her husband's passing making sure she was safe while other family
members, nieces, and did their part out the best they could. She loved us all, and we so
loved her.

Flora went home to be with the Lord early Monday morning at the tender age of
ninety-seven. She was preceded in death by six sisters, Sally, Katie, Pearl, Eliza,
Ruth (Bell), and Viola; and four brothers, John, Samuel Henry, Gilford, and Elven.
She leaves to cherish her memory: JC's children, Mann, Eleanor, and Patsy, his
nephew Butch, a multitude of loving nephews, nieces, cousins, neighbors, and
friends.
The Master Gardener Himself has plucked a beautiful flower, Her memory sweet as
honey is all we have left, and though we loved you, He loves best, And so we bow
to the Master's will and we have no regrets.

Interment
Dayton National Cemetery
11:00 a.m., Saturday, July 2, 2016
(Departing 9:30 a.m. from Brown Chapel)