Every person who ever met Stopper will tell you, they broke the mold after they made this man.
There will never be another one like him.
Played high school football with his brothers.
Escaped Nashville to see the world when he joined the Navy and then he couldn’t wait to come back home.
He was a firefighter in Nashville in his younger years.
Proud card-carrying member of IATSE Local 46, he worked the Grand Ole Opry,
The Johnny Cash Show, worked for The Nashville Network (TNN) from the launch date alongside Ralph Emery on The Nashville Now show, and many other shows on the network.
He worked for CBS News as sound technician for many years, with Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite.
Oh, the stories he could tell.... he was loved by everyone who ever met him.
The medical examiner may have their say, but we all know that he really died of a broken heart, after he lost his wife, Janet a year and a half ago.
No services planned.
