Emiko Y. Stoppe Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Emiko (Amy) Yamada Stoppe, 99, formerly of Mount Holly/Westampton, NJ, died suddenly on July 26, 2022, at Premier Cadbury of Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill, NJ. She was born on February 20, 1923, to the late Takekichi and Tomi Yamada, in Otsu, Japan. She attended and graduated from the Japanese school system, and later met her husband, Master Sergeant Benjamin Stoppe, U.S. Army, while she was a clerk typist for the American Occupation Forces after the Second World War. They were married in a Japanese rite ceremony in 1948, and, again in an American ceremony in Kobe, in September 1951. Emiko immigrated to the United States in April 1952, to join her husband, who was posted to Camp Kilmer, and then later to Fort Dix, NJ. Amy, as her Burlington County Memorial Hospital (Virtua) co-workers would call her, is survived by three children: Benjamin Jr. (Anne Lovelett), of Lake Monticello, Palmyra, VA; Arthur (Elizabeth Bressi), of Moorestown, NJ; and Ellen Wenger (William), of Raleigh, NC. She had one grandson, Weston Wenger, also of Raleigh. She was predeceased by her loving husband in 1978. Emiko enjoyed raising her family and visiting her husband’s family in North Jersey monthly. In December 1956, she became a U.S. citizen. When her children were older, she worked in the business department of the local hospital, where she was famous for using her abacus to check the computer’s math results. After her husband’s death, she traveled the United States. But, she never forgot her roots and the ways of Japanese culture, returning several times to visit family and friends there. Viewing will be held on Tuesday, August 2 from 10-11 AM at the Perinchief Chapels, 438 High St., Mount Holly. Funeral services will be held at 11 AM at the funeral home. Interment to follow at Princeton Memorial Park, 403 Gordon Rd., Robbinsville. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations may be made in her memory to ones favorite Veteran’s charity.

Emiko Y. Stoppe

February 20, 1923 - July 26, 2022