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June 12, 1988
Sapulpa Herald
Creek Co. OK

DEPEW - Mr. Joel A. (Fay) Cooper, of Depew, died Thursday at St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa.

Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Kellyville Free Holiness Church with the Revs. Ronnie Thompson of Pentecostal Mission of Sapulpa, Jen Rice of Stroud Holiness Church and Vernie Edwards of Kellyville officiating.

Burial will be at Kellyville City Cemetery with arrangements by Hutchins-Maples Funeral Home of Bristow.

Mr. Cooper was born July 16, 2923, to William Wilson Cooper and Lucinda H. Peacock Cooper. He was a life resident of Creek County and educated in Yale.

Mr. Cooper was a retired Bristow city employee and a member of Pentecostal Holiness Church of Depew. He married Nevada pearl Ralston on May 9, 1933, in Sapulpa.

Mr. Cooper is survived by wife Nevada of home; sons Lee of Kellyville, Ken of Kiefer, Jim of Bristow, Rev. Joel E. of Tulsa, Larry, Howard L., Roy and Berbert C., all of Depew; daughter Betty Vandocar of Depew; brothers Ellis of Sapulpa, Earl of Vacaville, Calif.; sister Elsie Thomas of Ponca city; 27 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.

[NOTE: See James Ralston and Jessie Wilson Cooper obit]