Cooper, Mrs. Alice 1860-1936

COOPER, LAMBERT

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 7/2/2008 at 13:12:14

MOTHER OF I. F. COOPER DIES
PASSED AWAY AT SENEY, IOWA FOLLOWING STROKE
Was 75 Years of Age and a Pioneer of South Dakota—Leaves Aged Mother and Three Sons

Mrs. Alice Cooper, mother of I. F. Cooper, passed away Monday at the Vincent Lancaster home at Seney following an illness of two weeks duration. Mrs. Cooper suffered a stroke Christmas Day and she grew weaker gradually until death claimed her Monday.

Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church at Seney Wednesday and burial was made in Sioux City.

Alice Lambert was born at Argyle, Wis., Sept. 1, 1860, so was past 75 years of age at the time of her death. She grew to young womanhood in Wisconsin and was married there to C.J. Cooper Feb. 22, 1883. After their marriage they moved to South Dakota and homesteaded near Faulton, Faulk county, and they built the first frame house in that county. While living in South Dakota, she was active in church work and helped organize the Methodist Church at DeVoe near Faulkton and two years ago she attended the 50th Anniversary of this church. Later she moved to Sioux City and 14 years ago her husband passed away there.

After the death of her husband, Mrs. Cooper made her home with relatives and for the past seven years she lived at the Vincent Lancaster home at Seney. She cared for Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lancaster, parents of Vincent Lancaster, until their death and then continued to make her home with him. She was an old friend of the Lancaster family.

She is survived by three sons, Irwin F. Hawarden; Harold L, Sioux City; and Burnet H., Kansas City. She leaves her aged mother, Mrs. Mary Lambert, 91, Cedar Falls; and _____[one line is too dark to read]; and two sisters, Mrs. John Godfrey, Alden, Iowa, and Minnie Edwards, Chicago. There are five grandchildren. One brother, Butler Lambert of Faulkton, S.D., died last Friday and his funeral services were held Sunday.

Her three sons attended the funeral and other relatives who attended were Mrs. Cooper and daughter, Alice, of Hawarden; Will Lambert, of Rothsay, Minn., who came from Faulkton, S.D., where he had attended the funeral services of his brother, and Mrs. John Godfrey and her daughter, Mrs. Gertrude McClelland of Alden, Iowa.

Mrs. Cooper was quite well known in this vicinity as at numerous times she visited at the home of her son, I.F. Cooper, southeast of Hawarden, and had many friends here who will regret to learn of her passing.

~Source: The Hawarden Independent, Jan. 9, 1936
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LeMars Globe-Post
January 9, 1936

MRS. ALICE COOPER IS TAKEN
Death Occurs At Seney At Age of 76 Years

Seney, Ia., Special: Mrs. Alice Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Furness Lambert, was born in Argyle, Wis., September 1, 1860, and died in Seney, Iowa, on January 6, 1936, age 75 years, 4 months and 5 days. Her mother died when she was 7 years old. Her father cared for her with four other small children, for two years, until his remarriage. She grew to womanhood in her father’s home and was united in marriage to Chauncey J. Cooper, of Madison, Wis., February 28, 1883. To this union three boys were born.

After her marriage, she went with her husband to Faulk county, S.D., near what is now known as Faulkton. Here they homesteaded. The family suffered many hardships of pioneer life, such as prairie fires, grasshopper plagues, and blizzards. Their first home was a sod house, later their home was the first frame house in the county.

While living here, Mr. Cooper engaged in the mercantile business and after a few years they moved to Huron, S.D., where Mr. Cooper continued in business for some years. Then the family went south for Mr. Cooper’s health and returned to Sioux City two years later. Here Mr. Cooper was in the retail grocery business.

Mrs. Cooper was left a widow in 1921, after which she made her home with her children, and a devoted sister, Mrs. Celia Godfrey, of Alden, Iowa. After the death of an old friend, Mrs. Ed. Lancaster, she came to the Lancaster home seven years ago, and was a faithful friend, and careful housekeeper until her own death.

She, with her husband, helped organize the First Methodist church in De Voe, S.D., where she was a charter member. She had the pleasure of going about two years ago to the fiftieth anniversary of this church. While in Sioux City, she was a regular attendant of the Whitfield Methodist church, and has always attended the Seney Methodist church when she was able.

She leaves three sons, Irwin F. Cooper, of Hawarden, Iowa; Harold L. Cooper, of Sioux City; and Burnelle M. Cooper, of Kansas City; five grandchildren; one brother, William Lambert, of Rothsay, Minn.; two sisters, Mrs. Celia Godfrey of Alden, Iowa; and Mrs. Minnie Edwards of Chicago; two half-sisters and three half-brothers; and an aged step-mother, who is 91 years old, with a host of friends to mourn her departure.

Funeral services were held in the Seney Methodist church on Wednesday afternoon, conducted by the pastor, Rev. M. B. Phillips. She was laid to rest beside her husband in Graceland Park cemetery, Sioux City.