Sapulpa Herald, The
Sapulpa, Oklahoma
October 6, 1995 Georgia
Ellen Cooper, 112, of Kellyville, died Friday, Oct. 6, 1995 at a
local hospital.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday in Kellyville’s First Baptist Church with the Revs. Rick
Bateman and Danny Frazee officiating. Interment will be in the
Kellyville cemetery
with Owen Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Cooper was born Oct. 19, 1882 to
George W. and Nancy Ann Louy Noble in Brookland, Ark. She
married John H. Cooper Sept. 24, 1899 in Brookland, and moved to
Kellyville from Edna in 1931.
She was a Christian for 99 years and a
member of First Baptist Church in Kellyville, where she taught
Sunday School, since 1931. She was preceded in death by her
husband in 1951, as well as four sons, Ernest Cooper, Floyd
Cooper, Raymond Cooper and Earl Cooper; a daughter, Hazel
Cooper; a granddaughter, Bobbie Burch; three grandsons, John
Cooper, Allen Cooper and Jackie Cooper; and two
great-granddaughters, Alice Koons and Amy David.
Survivors include a son, Glen Cooper of
El Dorado, Kans.; a daughter, Frances Williams of Kellyville; 15
grandchildren; 35 great- grandchildren; and 35
great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Paul Cooper, Anthony
Williams, John W. Williams, Larry Smith, Chet Ball and Scott
Parks. Honorary pallbearers will be Franklin Williams and Sam
Williams.
A wake is planned at 6 p.m. Monday at
First Baptist Church.
The family will be headquartered at the
Cooper residence Tuesday. The family asks that remembrance be
made to First Baptist Church of Kellyville.
Funeral services for Georgia Ellen
“Grandma” Cooper, 112, of Kellyville, will be at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday in Kellyville’s First Baptist Church.
The Revs. Rick Bateman and Danny Frazee
will officiate. Interment will be in the Kellyville cemetery
with Owen Funeral Home Arrangements.
Mrs. Cooper died last Friday at a local
hospital. She was born on October 19, 1882 to George W. and
Nancy Ann Louy Noble in Brookland, Ark. She married John H.
Cooper Sept. 24, 1899 in Brookland and moved to Indiana
Territory by train three years later.
She and her husband lived in Beggs and
in 1908 bought 160 acres, 2 ½ miles from old Edna Post Office.
They moved to Kellyville from Edna in 1931.
She was a Christian for 99 years and a
member of First Baptist Church in Kellyville, where she taught
Sunday School, since 1931. She was preceded in death by her
husband in 1951, as well as four sons, Ernest Cooper, Floyd
Cooper, Raymond Cooper and Earl Cooper; a daughter, Hazel
Cooper; a granddaughter, Bobbie Burch; three grandsons, John
Cooper, Allen Cooper and Jackie Cooper; and two
great-granddaughters, Alice Koons and Amy David.
Survivors include a son, Glen Cooper of
El Dorado, Kans.; a daughter, Frances Williams of Kellyville; 15
grandchildren; 35 great- grandchildren; and 35
great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Paul Cooper, Anthony
Williams, John W. Williams, Larry Smith, Chet Ball and Scott
Parks. Honorary pallbearers will be Franklin Williams and Sam
Williams.
A wake is planned at 6 p.m. Monday at
First Baptist Church.
The family will be headquartered at the
Cooper residence Tuesday. The family asks that remembrance be
made to First Baptist Church
KELLYVILLE – Residents here again today
are mourning a loss, this time of a dear grandmother.
“Grandma” Ellen Cooper died this morning
at a local hospital. She would have 113 years old Oct. 19.
“She was the matriarch of Kellyville,”
said Dr. Dwight Davidson, Kellyville superintendent. “Everyone
was either related to her or claimed to be.
“She could recall coming to Oklahoma in
a covered wagon. She’s just been here forever.”
“There’s hardly anybody you talk in town
who didn’t know her,” said Kellyville town clerk Anita
Richardson.
Former Kellyville Mayor Dixon Cartwright
said he’d known Grandma Cooper for more than 40 years.
“She seems to have always been in pretty
good health,” he said.
“We’ve seen her walking around in the
yard after she was 100.”
Grandma Cooper was a member of the
Baptist Church and a long-time subscriber to the Herald.
Funeral services are pending at Owen
Funeral Home in Sapulpa.
Complied and transcribed by Zoey Fryhover, 2009.
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