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James William Cooper

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James William Cooper Veteran

Birth
Rowell, DeWitt County, Illinois, USA
Death
14 Sep 1987 (aged 74)
Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Maroa, Macon County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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James William Cooper, 74, of Maroa died 1:54 p.m. Monday (Sep. 14, 1987) in Decatur Memorial Hospital.

Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday in Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Home, Maroa, with visitation 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Maroa Cemetery.

Mr. Cooper was born in Rowell, son of Robert Leroy and Sylvia W. Cooper. He was a retired electrical salesman. He was a member of Maroa Christian Church, Maroa Masonic Lodge 454 AF & AM, Weilepp Cramer Legion Post 660 and was a Navy veteran of World War II, having served in the construction brigade. He married Thelma Jane Troxell on April 16, 1935 in Rockville, IN.

Surviving are his wife; daughters, Mrs. Roger (Sharilyn Virginia) Willer of Roselle; Mrs. Roy (Rosalyn Jeanine) Deeton of Houston, TX.; brother, Elwood of Maroa; sisters, Grace Braden of Forsyth; Rosalie Long of St. Louis, MO.; Naomi Taylor of Maroa; Dorothy Baldwin of Clinton; three grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren.

OBIT: 9-16-1987, Decatur Herald & Review Newspaper.
James William Cooper, 74, of Maroa died 1:54 p.m. Monday (Sep. 14, 1987) in Decatur Memorial Hospital.

Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday in Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Home, Maroa, with visitation 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Maroa Cemetery.

Mr. Cooper was born in Rowell, son of Robert Leroy and Sylvia W. Cooper. He was a retired electrical salesman. He was a member of Maroa Christian Church, Maroa Masonic Lodge 454 AF & AM, Weilepp Cramer Legion Post 660 and was a Navy veteran of World War II, having served in the construction brigade. He married Thelma Jane Troxell on April 16, 1935 in Rockville, IN.

Surviving are his wife; daughters, Mrs. Roger (Sharilyn Virginia) Willer of Roselle; Mrs. Roy (Rosalyn Jeanine) Deeton of Houston, TX.; brother, Elwood of Maroa; sisters, Grace Braden of Forsyth; Rosalie Long of St. Louis, MO.; Naomi Taylor of Maroa; Dorothy Baldwin of Clinton; three grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren.

OBIT: 9-16-1987, Decatur Herald & Review Newspaper.


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