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January 19, 1990
Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma

DEPEW — Lula Belle "Joe" Cooper, 49, of Depew died Wednesday at Stroud Municipal Hospital after a long illness.

Services are scheduled for 10 am Saturday at the Bristow Free Holiness church with the Revs. Wayne Gemmill and Melvin Duke officiating.

Burial will be in Oakdale Cemetery, Depew, under the direction of Hutchins-Maples Funeral Home., Bristow.

Casket bearers will be Rick Robertson, Chris Cooper, Roger Inman, Doug Henshaw, Thomas Hoover and Gary Hoover.

She was born July 27, 1940, in Plainview, Ark., and graduated from Tulsa East Central High School in 1958. She married Kenneth Cooper on Dec. 4, 1959, in Tulsa and moved to Depew from Tulsa in 1970.

Mrs. Cooper was employed as a convenience store manager and attended the Free Holiness Church.

Survivors include husband Kenneth; mother Flora Tedder of Tulsa; sons Ronald Cooper of Bristow, Donald and Mike Cooper, both of Depew, and Stacy Cooper of Seminole; sisters Lena Hawkins, Barbara Woods and Linda Wilson, all of Tulsa; and nine grandchildren.