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BUSINESS OWNER
(December 8, 1918--December 31, 1997)
NORWOOD--The funeral for Joseph Hopsicker, 79, of 9 Circle Drive, former Village of Norwood mayor, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Andrew's Church with the Rev. Paul Worczak, pastor, presiding. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Mr. Hopsicker died at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday at his home, after a long illness. Calling hours are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Buck Funeral Home. Mr. Hopsicker served with the Army Air Corps during World War II and was a resident of Utica until moving in 1957 to Norwood, where he was associated with R.J. Plummer Co. and was co-founder of Northern Mechanicals, which he operated until his retirement in 1976. He was a former mayor of Norwood, served on the Norwood village board, village of Potsdam assessment review board and St. Lawrence County planning board and was founder and president of Baldwin Acres. He was a former member of the advisory board of Canton Agricultural and Technical College and a trustee of the pension, health and welfare funds for Plumbers and Steamfitter Union 117-72. Born Dec. 8, 1918, in Utica, a son of Wuilliam and Margaret Gahn Hopsicker, he married Noreen F. White on March 17, 1945, at Blessed Sacrament Church, Utica, with the Rev. Robert Hall presiding. He was a communicant of St. Andrew's Church and a member of Plumbers and Steamfitters Union 117-72, Norwood Kiwanis Club, Clark Robinson American Legion Post 68, Azure Mountain and Weller Mountain hunting clubs and Knights of Columbus Council, Potsdam, where he was a fourth-degree knight. He was awarded a George Huxson Kiwanis International Fellowship in 1997. Surviving besides his wife are two sons, Lawrence T. and David M., both of Norwood; four brothers, William, Utica, Richard, Wampsville, Kenneth, Arizona, and John, Old Forge; four sisters, Mrs. Charles (Patricia) Weigel, Sequoit, Barbara Mercadante, Whitesboro, Mary Hopsicker, Washington Mills, and Jean Reile, Sequoit; six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and several nephews and nieces. A brother, Robert, died before him. Contributrions may be made to Hospice of St. Lawrence Valley, St. Andrew's Church or Norwood Kiwanis Club.
(Taken from the Friday, January 2, 1998 edition of the Watertown Daily Times).
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