What happened to Jason hoppy's brother?

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HOPPY, Bryan D., 1970-1991

Dalice (View posts)Posted: 10 Apr 2008 3:47PM GMTClassification: Obituary

Surnames: HOPPY, DeMATT

Donated by Peggy Barvilchock Yesvetz (1922-2006)

Hazleton PA Standard-Speaker, Feb. 1991

A Hazleton man died Saturday afternoon, shortly after he was involved in a violent head-on collision in upstate New York. A New York State Police trooper said Sunday that 20-year-old Bryan D. Hoppy, 681 Harrison St., was a passenger in a 1981 Buick driven by Thomas Mark Randis, 21, also of Hazleton. The men apparently were returning home from a fishing trip. Sgt. Marshall Minot, stationed in Pulaski, N.Y., said Randis was traveling southbound on state Route 13 in the town of Altmar. For some unknown reason, he then allegedly crossed the center of the roadway in the proximity of Pulaski Street and directly into the path of a northbound 1979 Jeep Suburban. Minot said emergency personnel from throughout a 30-mile area immediately responded to the scene. An ambulance transported Hoppy of Oswego Community Hospital, where he died a short time later. Randis and the two Jeep occupations, Thomas J. Golden and Gregory Ronalter, both of Connecticut, were taken to A.L. Lee Memorial Hospital in Fulton, N.Y. All three were treated and released late Saturday, hospital officials said Sunday. Randis was treated for a concussion and facial abrasions, while Golden sustained facial lacerations and Ronalter suffered a fractured left leg in the crash. New York State Police will continue its investigation of the fatal crash, thought Minot on Sunday ruled out alcohol as a possible factor. He said interviews with relatives and the presence of fishing gear in the Randis car leads him to believe the local men were in upstate New York on a fishing trip. "This is a very popular outdoors area that's known all over the Northeast," Minot said. "They wre probably fishing in the Salmon River, where some record-breaking fish have been caught." A friend said the two active outdoorsman previously travelled to that area to fish. Born in Hazleton, Hoppy was the son of Robert M. and Carol A. (DeMatt) Hoppy. He was employed as an operator by Bell of Pennsylvania, Hazleton, and was a second-year student at Luzerne County Community College. Hoppy was a member of St. Mary's B.C. Church, Hazleton, and the Hazleton Heights Volunteer Fire Co. No. 4. Surviving, in addition to his parents, are his maternal grandparents, Robert and Carmella DeMatt, Hazleton; paternal grandmother, Margaret Hoppy, Hazleton Heights; and a brother, Jason Hoppy, who is a student and Basketball player at the University of Scranton. Preceding him in death was his paternal grandfather, Stephen Hoppy Sr. The funeral will be held Tuesday at 9 am from the Moran Funeral Home, 229 W. 12th St. The Requiem Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at 9:30 am in St. Mary's B.C. Church. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Drums.