COOP, Nancy Myrtle 1880 - 1976

COOP, SPENCER, FERRELL, HART, HOLM

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:27

"The Fairfield (Ia.) Ledger"
Saturday, March 20, 1976
Page 8, Column 2

Myrtle COOP Dies At 96

Nancy Myrtle COOP, 96, member of a Jefferson County pioneer family, died at 3 a.m. today at the United Presbyterian Home in Washington (note: in Washington Co., IA).

Services will be Monday at 10:30 a.m. at the Weston Behner Funeral Home with the Rev. Wayne Bartruff officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

Members of the family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

Miss COOP was the granddaughter of Colonel William G. COOP, one of the first white settlers in Jefferson County and served in the territorial legislature.

Nancy Myrtle COOP was born Jan. 28, 1880, in Jefferson County, the daughter of Lafayette and Cynthia SPENCER COOP.

Both she and her father were born in a large frame house reputed to be the first frame house in the neighborhood. It is located seven miles north of Fairfield and one-fourth mile west of Antioch Church.

She was educated in a rural school, Penn No. 10, and attended business college in LeGrand. She later transferred to Capitol City Commercial College at Des Moines.

She was employed as secretary for the law firm of Leggett and McKemey in Fairfield and during World War I she accepted a Civil Service assignment in Washington, D.C.

Following her retirement she returned to Fairfield and purchased the property at 401 North C where she lived until entering the home in Washington.

She traveled extensively. She was a member of the Daughters of American Colonists and attended the Methodist Church.

Miss COOP is survived by one nephew, Raymond COOP, and four nieces, Mrs Glover B. FERRELL, Washington; Beatrice COOP, Iowa City; Mrs. George HART, Des Moines; and Mrs. George HOLM, Fairfield.

She was the last member of her immediate family. One brother and four sisters preceded her in death.

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Note: Buried in Lot 3rd.028.