Eva Gilpin Cooper (1954)

COOPER, GILPIN, SHIVELY, BEAN

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 10/29/2006 at 18:59:47

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
February 13, 1954

Services Here For MRS. ROBERT COOPER

Mrs. Robert Cooper, a well known Winerset resident during most of her life, died Saturday, Feb. 13, 1954, at Evanston, Wyo. She was 78 years of age.

Mrs. Cooper was born in Winterset and spent her life here, until 1938 when she moved to Wyoming. She was the former Eva Gilpin, daughter of Major and Mrs. T. C. Gilpin, and was born Dec. 18, 1875.

In 1907 she was married to Dr. Robert Cooper, Winterset dentist. His death occurred in 1933.

As a young woman she studied music in Chicago and New York, and during her residence in Winterset she taught both voice and piano to music students of this community.

She was active in the First Presbyterian church here, serving as organist and teaching Sunday school classes. She was affiliated with the P.E.O. also.

Surviving are her daughter, Mrs. Sanford M. Shively of Casper, Wyo.; two grandsons, Robert and Mark Shively of Casper; and a sister, Mrs. Grace Bean,also of Casper.

Funeral services were held this Wednesday from the Anderson home for funerals, conducted by the Rev. George DeF. Fisher, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.