Cooper, Leona C. 1916-2000

COOPER, WETROSKY, MUNCH

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/16/2010 at 16:59:04

LEONA C. COOPER

HOLSTEIN, Iowa—Leona C. Cooper, 84, of Holstein, formerly of Moville and Kingsley, Iowa, died Friday, Oct. 27, 2000, at her residence.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Earnest and Michaelson Funeral Home in Kingsley with the Rev. Judy Pipper of Holstein United Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in Kingsley Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Cooper was born July 30, 1916, in Kingsley, the daughter of Joseph J. and Mary (Munch) Wetrosky. She was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in rural Hinton, Iowa. She grew up in the Kingsley area and attended rural school. She married Vernon Cooper on March 27, 1935, in Elk Point, S.D. They farmed in the Moville area for several years. He died April 1, 1984. She had lived in Holstein since 1993.

She was a member of Holstein Methodist church.

Survivors include four sons, Dale and his wife Eileen of Moville, Daniel J. of Moville, Dennis of Correctionville, Iowa, and Donald and his wife, Barb, of Cherokee, Iowa; three daughters, Pat Dunnington of Wickenburg, Ariz., Kathy and her husband, Don Brookbank of Holstein, and Virginia Royal of Clinton, N.C.; three sisters, Loretta Porsch of Sioux City, Luella Jahn of Inchelium, Wash., and Darlene Adams of Keota, Iowa; and a sister-in-law, Catherine Wetrosky of Sioux City.

She also was preceded in death by five brothers, John, Clarence, Percy, George, and Joseph; three sisters, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Lydia Lau, and Blanche in infancy; two sons-in-law, James Dunnington and Charlie Royal; and an infant grandson, Kenneth Putzier.

~Source: Likely the Sioux City Journal, October 2000
~Copy submitted for transcription & posting by her daughter, Kathy Brookbank