Cooper, Leta Elizabeth Wilson – 1903-1976

COOPER, HICKMAN, PYLE, QUICK, WHEATCRAFT, WILSON

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 6/13/2022 at 13:23:39

Leta E. Cooper Services to be Held Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Hiram P. (Leta Elizabeth) Cooper, 72, of 511 E. 2nd St. N., a resident of Newton for nearly 50 years, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Toland-Wallace Funeral Home.
The Rev. Ray Barnett, pastor of the First Christian Church, will conduct services. Burial will be in the Newton Union Cemetery. Graveside rites will be conducted by the Pocahontas Lodge.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. today.
Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the Toland-Wallace Funeral Home.
Survivors are two step-sons, Jack Cooper of Davenport and Roland Cooper of Los Angeles, Calif.; two step-daughters, Mrs. Esther Wheatcraft of Colona, Ill., and Mrs. Beryle Pyle of Richland, Wash.; 12 step-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren; two step-great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Stella Hickman of Marshalltown.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband July 8, 1963, a brother and two sisters.
Mrs. Cooper was a member of the First Christian Church and the Pocahontas Lodge.
Mrs. Cooper, a beauty operator, opened the first beauty shop in the Maytag Hotel. She also had worked as a homemaker’s aide.
The daughter of Harry Andrew and Alta Mae Quick Wilson, she was born June 25, 1903 in Van Cleve.
She was married June 12, 1928 in Tama.
She died Monday morning at the Skiff Memorial Hospital.
Source: Newton (IA) Daily News; Tuesday, February 17, 1976, page 2