Agnes Cooper 1871-1936

COOPER, THOMPSON, PECK

Posted By: Janet Koozer (email)
Date: 10/17/2008 at 15:23:08

Agnes Cooper Is Called By Death

Former Lansing Woman Dies In Sioux City Following Operation Last Week

Miss Agnes Cooper died Thursday afternoon, October 15, at the Methodist hospital at Sioux City, Iowa, following a gall bladder operation.

Miss Cooper was the youngest daughter of George and Mary Cooper and was born in March 1871 in Iowa township, Allamakee county. At the age of eighteen, she went to Omaha, Nebraska, where she completed a business course and upon her return she was employed as a stenographer by James Trewin for a few years. She spent 22 years in the employ of James P. Conway and closed the business affairs of Mr. Conway, his wife and son after their deaths. In 1918 she went to Ames, Iowa, where she worked for Dr. Exzhard about a year, then to Sioux City, where she entered the employ of Attorneys Snyder, Gleysteen, Purdy and Harper, where she remained until two years ago when she retired from an active business life.

She raised a nephew, Stewart Cooper, Jr., after the death of his mother, caring for the child from the age of eighteen months, sending him through school and college and was largely reponsible for the fine young man he has turned out to be, with a very responsible position. Miss Cooper had been ailing for sometime but had disclosed her condition to no one, so her death came as rather a shock to her loved ones.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at Sioux City and the body was brought to Dubuque by train accompained by Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Cooper, Jr., and Mrs. Cooper's mother, Mrs. Flora Colby, who was a close friend of Miss Cooper, and conveyed to Lansing by funeral hearse.

Miss Cooper is survived by one sister, Mrs. Mary A. Thompson, and three brothers, Douglas, Stewart and Edwin, all of Lansing. Three sisters and one brother already are dead.

Funeral services were held in Lansing from the Stewart Cooper home to the Federated church Sunday afternoon, the services being conducted by Reverend Kuhn of Dubuque University and burial in Oak Hill cemetery. Casket bearers were all nephews: G. A. Thompson of Minneapolis, Arthur Cooper of Rollette, N. D. ; Wallace Cooper of Dubuque; John H. Thompson, and Wilson and Edwin Cooper of Lansing.

Out of town relatives and friends who attended the funeral were: Arthur Cooper of Rollette, N. D.; the Wallace Cooper family of Dubuque; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thompson and G. A. Thompson of Minneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peck of Waukon; Miss Anna Koehm, Waterloo, and Miss Fannie Hemenway Cedar Falls.