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Contact Info
Home Town Mount Carmel, PA
Last Address Livingston, NJ
Date of Passing Sep 15, 1966
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
After retiring from the Navy, he worked as vice president in charge of operations for the Grace Steamship Company until 1964.
He was awarded with Navy Distinguished Service Medal during Cold War and twice with the Legion of Merit for his World War II service, once as Director of Planning and Control in the Bureau of Naval Personnel and once as commanding officer of the light cruiser Cleveland.
He is the namesake of HopwoodJunior High School in Saipan, originally the first institution of higher learning in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which was renamed in his honor in the late 1950s when he was Commanding Officer for the Northern Marianas as CINCPACFLT.
He died at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, New Jersey at the age of 67, and is buried with his wife in ArlingtonNationalCemetery.
