Hanover, N.H. —
Glenna Marilyn Aldrich was born in Cheshire, Conn. on March 24, 1928, and was the second of the four children of Glen Melville Aldrich and Esther Williams Aldrich. She attended public schools in Jamestown, R.I., where her family moved when she was eight, and graduated from Rogers High School in neighboring Newport, R.I. in 1946. Following graduation, she attended the University of Rhode Island. She met Sgt. Charles Francis Hopper, USMC, while he was stationed at the Naval War College in Newport and they were married in Jamestown on Jan. 1, 1949.
Following Charles’ discharge later in 1949, they moved to Madison, Wisc., where they lived until 1954 before returning to the east coast. Glenna raised their two children in Hazlet, N.J., and returned to college when they were older, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Monmouth College, West Long Branch, N.J., in 1978. For the next 10 years, she worked as a contract specialist for the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth, N.J. until her retirement in 1988.
While living in New Jersey, she sang with the Stuart Smith singers. Glenna was also an avid hiker and climber who climbed all 47 four-thousand-foot mountains in New Hampshire.
Following retirement, Glenna and Charles moved to Glen, N.H., where Glenna became very active in the Daughters of the American Revolution. They later moved to Walpole, N.H. in 2001 and to Wheelock Terrace in Hanover in 2010, where Charles predeceased Glenna in 2013 after 64 years of marriage.
Glenna Hopper is survived by a daughter, Catherine G. Hopper of Lyme, N.H.; a son, Charles J. Hopper of Charlottesville, Va.; two grandchildren, Elisabeth R. Perlman of Cambridge, Mass. and Mark L. Perlman of Boston, Mass.; and a brother, Nelson W. Aldrich of Minneapolis, Minn. She was predeceased by her parents, her husband, two brothers, Donald Aldrich and J. Kenneth Aldrich and her beloved dog Bogart.
She will be buried in a family plot at Hillside Cemetery in Cheshire, Conn. A service to celebrate her life will be held at a to-be-determined date at the Lyme Congregational Church. Messages of sympathy can be shared with her family at www.rickerfuneralhome.com.