Stephen Paul Hopkins passed away at the Greentree assisted living facility in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, Saturday December 13th, 2025. He was seventy four years old. Steve was born in Neosho, Missouri, November 8, 1951, to mother Lorene (Livingston) and Reverend Jerry Hopkins who was the pastor at the First Baptist Church of Noel, Missouri, at the time.
The Hopkins family moved to Siloam Springs, Arkansas, shortly afterward, with Jerry the newly appointed pastor of Harvard Avenue Baptist Church.
Steve grew up in that church and later at John Brown University in Siloam where college life and a campus became a playground for him. He excelled in high school basketball and set many records for his team the Panthers, leading to a scholarship at Tulsa University and the Golden Hurricane.
Steve's love of fashion would lead him to run Douglas Gordon, a man's dress shop in the Utica Square shopping village for many years. Later his role as a Senior Account Sales Executive at Tulsa People magazine utilized his contacts throughout Tulsa and beyond for the bulk of his career. His knowledge of Tulsa and his warm personality made him a favorite at the magazine where he worked for seventeen years.
Steve is survived by his son Aaron with his wife Emily and their daughters Mackenzie and Charlie, and their son Brodie, of Milford, Delaware and his younger brother Stanley Wayne, of Jenks, Oklahoma. He is also survived by nieces Adrian, Alyssa, Ashley, and Brynlee and nephews Braden and Beau. He was preceded in death by his younger brother Stacy Lee in May of 2020.