Marion Hopkins

Marion  Frances White was born in New Orleans, LA on May 19, 1893 to parents James White (24) and Marion Kiernan (22).  James occupation is listed as Consul at the time. He later became a judge.  They had a total of four children.  Marion,  Erin, Hibernia, and one son Kiernan.

In 1919,  Marion was working as a nurse on a border train between Texas and Mexico.  She meet Ira J Hopkins who was    working as an architect in Mexico City. He was 57 and she was 25, they married in San Jose Mexico, date unknown.

They had one daughter who was born in Mexico City and died as an infant.  Francis Ira Hopkins was born on July 24, 1922 in the Santa Rosa Hospital, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas.   His birth certificate  showed his parents living at the Elane Hotel, father’s occupation as Decorator.   Baptism was on Aug 13th 1922 at St. Mary’s Church, San Antonio, Texas.  The family moved back to Mexico City.  Frank had a Spanish nurse named “Trinidad”.

In the winter of 1924, Ira, then 62, died from pneumonia.   He caught cold walking to work.  In papers I received from the State Department in 1979:

“Report of the Death of An American Citizen >American Consular Service”  it shows that he died at Cowdray Sanitarium, Mexico City, Mexico. June 22nd 2:00 pm  1925.

He was buried in the American Cemetery, Mexico City.  It shows that his wife, Mrs. I.J. Hopkins address was  Chapultepec Heights, Mexico. D.F. 

Because Ira was not a Mexican citizen, his partner got all of the business.  Marion had to support herself and Frank by working as an Spanish teacher at the University in Mexico City.  Marion finally moved the family to Dallas when Frank was about four or five.