Karen Matilda Ottesen Hoopes was born August 8, 1938, in Springville, Utah, to her parents, Lester Erastus Ottesen and Ina Jamima Larsen. She is the only daughter with 3 brothers.
She started playing the piano at the early age of 5, and piano has been her life-long love. She attended elementary school in Springville, and high school at Springville High where she soloed and accompanied many individual artists; she also enjoyed playing the viola in the orchestra. She had special supportive parents and excelled academically, chosen by her classmates and teachers to speak at her 1956 graduation.
Karen attended BYU on a music scholarship where she again was called to perform, solo, and participate in the orchestra.
She met her future husband, Fred Hoopes, through her brother, Sterling, who was Fred's classmate at USC Dental School. After a couple of visits to Southern California, Karen and Fred became engaged and were married on January 3, 1957, in the Salt Lake Utah Temple by Fred's former Stake President of his youth, Apostle Spencer Kimball.
Karen is survived by her husband, Fred; their children: Gretchen Johns of South Jordan, UT; Shawn Hoopes of Orem, UT; Heidi Cook of Baltimore, MD; Timothy Hoopes of Torrance, CA; Jeremy Hoopes of Mesa, AZ; as well as 18 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held Saturday afternoon, December 18, 2021, at the LDS Chapel, 3477 East River Bottoms Road, Spanish Fork, Utah 84660. Viewings will be held at the church on Friday evening from 6:00 a 8:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 12:00 Noon until 1:15 p.m. followed by the funeral service at 1:30 p.m. Interment will be at Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
She started playing the piano at the early age of 5, and piano has been her life-long love. She attended elementary school in Springville, and high school at Springville High where she soloed and accompanied many individual artists; she also enjoyed playing the viola in the orchestra. She had special supportive parents and excelled academically, chosen by her classmates and teachers to speak at her 1956 graduation.
Karen attended BYU on a music scholarship where she again was called to perform, solo, and participate in the orchestra.
She met her future husband, Fred Hoopes, through her brother, Sterling, who was Fred's classmate at USC Dental School. After a couple of visits to Southern California, Karen and Fred became engaged and were married on January 3, 1957, in the Salt Lake Utah Temple by Fred's former Stake President of his youth, Apostle Spencer Kimball.
Karen is survived by her husband, Fred; their children: Gretchen Johns of South Jordan, UT; Shawn Hoopes of Orem, UT; Heidi Cook of Baltimore, MD; Timothy Hoopes of Torrance, CA; Jeremy Hoopes of Mesa, AZ; as well as 18 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held Saturday afternoon, December 18, 2021, at the LDS Chapel, 3477 East River Bottoms Road, Spanish Fork, Utah 84660. Viewings will be held at the church on Friday evening from 6:00 a 8:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 12:00 Noon until 1:15 p.m. followed by the funeral service at 1:30 p.m. Interment will be at Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
Karen Matilda Ottesen Hoopes was born August 8, 1938, in Springville, Utah, to her parents, Lester Erastus Ottesen and Ina Jamima Larsen. She is the only daughter with 3 brothers.
She started playing the piano at the early age of 5, and piano has been her life-long love. She attended elementary school in Springville, and high school at Springville High where she soloed and accompanied many individual artists; she also enjoyed playing the viola in the orchestra. She had special supportive parents and excelled academically, chosen by her classmates and teachers to speak at her 1956 graduation.
Karen attended BYU on a music scholarship where she again was called to perform, solo, and participate in the orchestra.
She met her future husband, Fred Hoopes, through her brother, Sterling, who was Fred's classmate at USC Dental School. After a couple of visits to Southern California, Karen and Fred became engaged and were married on January 3, 1957, in the Salt Lake Utah Temple by Fred's former Stake President of his youth, Apostle Spencer Kimball.
Karen is survived by her husband, Fred; their children: Gretchen Johns of South Jordan, UT; Shawn Hoopes of Orem, UT; Heidi Cook of Baltimore, MD; Timothy Hoopes of Torrance, CA; Jeremy Hoopes of Mesa, AZ; as well as 18 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held Saturday afternoon, December 18, 2021, at the LDS Chapel, 3477 East River Bottoms Road, Spanish Fork, Utah 84660. Viewings will be held at the church on Friday evening from 6:00 a 8:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 12:00 Noon until 1:15 p.m. followed by the funeral service at 1:30 p.m. Interment will be at Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
She started playing the piano at the early age of 5, and piano has been her life-long love. She attended elementary school in Springville, and high school at Springville High where she soloed and accompanied many individual artists; she also enjoyed playing the viola in the orchestra. She had special supportive parents and excelled academically, chosen by her classmates and teachers to speak at her 1956 graduation.
Karen attended BYU on a music scholarship where she again was called to perform, solo, and participate in the orchestra.
She met her future husband, Fred Hoopes, through her brother, Sterling, who was Fred's classmate at USC Dental School. After a couple of visits to Southern California, Karen and Fred became engaged and were married on January 3, 1957, in the Salt Lake Utah Temple by Fred's former Stake President of his youth, Apostle Spencer Kimball.
Karen is survived by her husband, Fred; their children: Gretchen Johns of South Jordan, UT; Shawn Hoopes of Orem, UT; Heidi Cook of Baltimore, MD; Timothy Hoopes of Torrance, CA; Jeremy Hoopes of Mesa, AZ; as well as 18 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held Saturday afternoon, December 18, 2021, at the LDS Chapel, 3477 East River Bottoms Road, Spanish Fork, Utah 84660. Viewings will be held at the church on Friday evening from 6:00 a 8:00 p.m. and on Saturday from 12:00 Noon until 1:15 p.m. followed by the funeral service at 1:30 p.m. Interment will be at Spanish Fork City Cemetery.
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