Breaking News/In Memoriam/AllOTSEGO Joan Welch Hopkins; Cooperstown Native Lived In Milford IN MEMORIAM: Joan Welch Hopkins; Cooperstown Native Lived In Milford ONEONTA – Joan Welch Hopkins, 77, died Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, at Fox Hospital. Joan was born in Cooperstown on Jan. 23, 1941, to Mildred Miner Welch and Alva Curtis Welch.… October 8, 2018