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A home girls home going was celebrated Thursday May 8, 2003 at Greater Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church 5005 liberty Road, Houston, Texas where Reverend Charles L. Allen serve as pastor.
Rev Warren Chapman (Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church) and Rev. Jeffery Williams (House of Charity Worship Center) read the Scripture. Rev. Lester Renfro (Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church) rendered the pray. Rev. Charles L. Allen Sr. rendered the message of comfort.
Yvonne Naomi Hopkins was born November 22.1938 to Willie and Bertha (Harvey) Hopkins in Houston, Texas. She loved the Lord and at an early age she accepted him as her personal Savior and was baptized as a member of Caanan Baptist Church. She was educated in the public schools and graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School in its Class of 1956. In 1958 Yvonne united in marriage with Arthur Lee Cole and this union was blessed with five children: ReNay, Yvette, John, Kevin and Kimberly.

Yvonne continued her Christian journey at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church under the pastoral leadership of the late Jesse Glover, the late A.C. White (her step-father), and the late Clifton Ellis, Sr.. She worked numerous years as a retail clothing sales assistant as she raised her children with the assistance of her mother, Bertha J. White.
In 1997 Yvonne united in marriage to her longtime friend and fellow classmate of the Phillis Wheatley Class of 1956, Jesse Thompson. Yvonne united with Greater Mount Nebo Missionary Baptist Church under the pastoral leadership of Reverend Charles L. Allen, Sr. where she remained a member until the Lord called her home on May 3, 2003.

Her father, Willie Hopkins; and her daughter, ReNay Maria Cole, predeceased Yvonne Cole Thompson in death. Celebrating her home going is her beloved husband, Jesse Thompson; mother, Bertha J. White; children: Yvette & Joe Whitaker, John & Natalie Cole of Raleigh, NC, Kevin & Sheryl Cole of Austin, TX, Kimberly & Christopher Nash of Everett, WA, Deanna & Jonathan Maxwell and Kelly & Dwight Washington; grandchildren: OluLemi (Femi) Onabajo, Jr., Brandon & Cameron Whitaker, Christopher Cole, Nelson & Marcus Cole, Cole Nash, and Chase Washington; sister, Bobbie Glover; and brothers and sisters-in-law; Willie & Marthella Hopkins, and Warren & Ann Chapman. Additional survivors include her longtime friends Mattie and John Johnson, Jewel & Charlie Hunt, Helen Conaway, Joyce Thaxton, Arthur & Bernice Cole, and a host of other relatives and friends.
Active Pallbearers: Clinton Wilson, Jesse L. Glover, Sherman Hopkins, Vincent Craver, Nathaniel Mayes, 111, and Patrick Kessee
Honorary Pallbearers: John A. Cole, Joe L. Whitaker, Willie Leo Hopkins, Kevin W. Cole, Chirs A. Nash, and Brandon Whitaker