At right, Laura Ellen With Jay Boy Adams at KFAT. On Memorial Day, Laura Ellen Hopper passed away due to complications from cancer. This truly is the week the music died. Laura Ellen was the Program Director of KPIG radio – 107 oink 5, in Freedom, California. Before that, she was the Program Director of the legendary and infamous KFAT radio, located in Gilroy, California, the garlic capital of the world, from 1975 through 1983. I didn’t find out Laura Ellen had passed away until today, because in a fit of nostalgia, I’d been listening to the KFAT stream for…