Barbara Jean Keiser Hopkins memoir and family history

Collection

Identifier: ACCN 3310

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Scope and Contents

The Barbara Jean Keiser Hopkins memoir and family history (2017) is entitled, My Journey of Faith. This self-published memoir provides historical information regarding her ancestors, her children, and her own history. Included in the book in a CD containing a PDF verion of the book.

Table of Content:

Introduction
Ancestors of My Father Alma Lehi Keiser
Ancestors of My Mother Lois Mary Ridd (Keiser)
My Mother Lois Mary Ridd (Keiser) (1915-2008)
My Father Alma Lehi Keiser (1913-2010)
My Growing-up Years
My Married Life
About My Children - Accomplishments and Marriages
Commentaries and Trials in My Life
My Testimony
My Keiser Family Tree
Description of Photographs
Sources

Dates

2017

Creator

Hopkins, Barbara Jean Keiser (Person)

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The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Biographical / Historical

Barbara Jean Keiser Hopkins was born on September 30, 1950, to Alma Lehi Keiser and Lois Mary Ridd Keiser in Salt Lake City, Utah. During her childhood she began to take piano lessons which led to a future as an award winning pianist. Barbara studied for two years at the University of Utah as a piano performance major and then transferred to Brigham Young University to continue her studies. One of her professors at BYU was Yoshie Akimoto Eldredge. Barbara studied piano with her privately, until Yoshie moved to Southern California. In 1972 Barbara decided to move to California to continue her studies with Yoshie. It was while in California, she met and married her husband, James Lewis Hopkins, M.D., on December 27, 1974. In 1996, Barbara's husband suffered a health issue which made her become the family's primary provider and caregiver. Despite many challenges in her life, Barbara's determination and faith helped her overcome many difficulties and to raise four children.

Barbara is a Daughter of Utah Pioneers and an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.