(daughter of Champion Bailey Cooper)
and his Obit
To Katie Cooper Edwards
(sister to Champion)
Dear Aunt Kate,
I could not write you sooner to tell you of papa's last moments. Rand, his wife, and Monroe were here till Saturday afternoon. Then a friend of mine, who lives across town, took me home with her to visit until late yesterday. I am so very tired yet that I have to rest most of the time. I was alone with papa until the last two nights of his last illness, and I am just now realizing what a strain it was.
Papa did not seem to suffer, as he was scarcely concious, or was totally unconscious, during his last week. He just seemed to go to sleep and slip away slowly. The end came at 1:40 Thursday afternoon. The newspaper clipping will tell you the rest. The service was simple and brief, as I am sure he would have wished it to be. The church was filled and overflowing with people, and there were numerous floral offerings. He was laid to rest beside our mother in the little cemetery which is only about 2 miles from here, and the little plot is lovely and shady.
I thought of you and wished it were possible for you to be with us. It was not
possible for Peyton to come, as he was on the way to England and Ireland. I had written him that the end was expected, but the letter has not yet reached him, and he will not know of it until he reaches Dublin, Ireland.
I wish I could come to visit you now, but I have so much to do and look after here, I cannot leave. There are several hens sitting besides nearly 100 baby chicks, and also fryers ready to be sold. I have some good tenants in the little house; also have gotten another dog as additional protection, so I am not afraid and do not mind being here alone. I have several lovely friends in town whom
I can visit whenever I feel the need of company.
Perhaps sometime in the future I can come to see you and I should love to have you visit me. Write to me soon. Take good care of yourself. With much love to you and all.
Fondly, Dot (Daughter of Champion B. Cooper)
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COOPER, CHAMP B.
Champ B. Cooper, 82, died at 1:40 p.m. Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Cooper Johnson, at Lacy. Funeral services will be held from Lacy-Lakeview Baptist church at 3 p. m. Friday, Rev. L.W. Hardcastle officiating, burial in Walker Cemetery, Compton's in charge. Pallbearers will be K. P. Crouch, J. H. Montgomery, Robert Bolfing, J. L. Smith,
E. R. Johnson, Morris Rappe.
Honorary pallbearers will be W. L. Fannigan, Milton Hancock, E. A. Meyers,
J. T. Whitfield, Henry Dozier, J. T. Seawell, Wallace Martin, Taylor Crouch, and George S. Montgomery.
Survivors are one son, A. R. Cooper, of Pine Bluff, Ark.; one daughter,
Mrs. Johnson; two grandsons; Peyton Johnson of Port Arthur and Monroe C. Anderson
of Little Rock, Ark; one sister, Mrs. A. N. (*M) Edwards Sr. of Ponchatoula, LA.
Mr. Cooper was born in Tangipahoa parish LA and came to Texas in 1885, settling near Waco.
Except for a few years spent in Arkansas, he has been a resident of this section ___ace that time.