HOPKINS, GARY “HOPPY”
Gary Hopkins was a volunteer deejay at WYSO and played bass and tuba(!) with the Hotmud Family and later married their guitarist/lead vocalist, Suzanne Thomas. After the Hotmud Family broke up, he played bass with the Beacons, a gospel bluegrass group. In 2010, he was working for a major music retailer in Southwest Ohio and as an associate pastor in Fayette County, as well as being heavily involved in prison ministry.