Eunice Cooper (1914 - 2001)

COOPER, DENNIS, RHONE, BUBB, WILSON, HAMMERBURG

Posted By: Karen Brewer (email)
Date: 9/15/2011 at 23:30:27

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Eunice Cooper
Eunice Cooper, daughter of Clarence and Cora Dennis Rhone, was born Feb. 21, 1914, in Lorimor and died April 7, 2001, at Clarke County Hospital in Osceola. She was 87.

She was educated in the Lorimor schools before moving to Des Moines where she attended Catell Elementary School and Amos Hiatt Junior High School and graduated from East High School. She attended college in McPherson, Kan. and graduated from 4C’s Business College in Des Moines.

She married Clarence Everett Cooper on July 3, 1940, in Shenandoah. The couple became the parents of three children.

A homemaker she was a day worker and briefly worked at Osceola Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

She was a devoted member of Calvary Baptist Church in Osceola.

Mrs. Cooper was an avid reader and loved to embroider and quilt. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren were a great joy.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband in 1979; three brothers, Curtis Cloyd, Marion and Elmer Rhone; a sister, Claracy Rhone; a sister-in-law, Margaret Rhone and brothers-in-law, Ernest Bubb and Vern Wilson.

Mrs. Rhone is survived by two sons, David Cooper of Osceola and Don Cooper and his wife, Mona Cooper, of Adel; a daughter, Diann Cooper of West Des Moines; two grandchildren, Michelle Hammerberg and her husband, William Hammerberg, and Michael Cooper and his wife, Michelle Cooper, all of Des Moines; four great-grandchildren; two sisters, Vera Bubb of Astoria, Ill. and Ula Wilson of Boulder, Colo.; other relatives and a host of friends.

Funeral services were April 10 at Kale Funeral Home in Osceola, Pastor Ted Welch and Pastor George Neal officiating. Organist Laurie McKinney accompanied soloist Steve Porter as he sang Mrs. Cooper’s favorite hymns, Amazing Grace and Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.

Casket bearers were Jerry Bubb, Ronald Dean Eckart, Dick Rhone, Richard Graves, Wayne Holden and Bill Dutton. Interment was in Maple Hill Cemetery at Osceola.