Cooper, George Frederick 1879-1903

COOPER, WHITCOM

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 11/17/2011 at 10:17:18

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; Oct. 6, 1903

OBITUARY

George Frederick Cooper, son of N.A. and L.P. Cooper, was born in Grinnell, May 13, 1879, and on May 13, 1901 was married to Miss Belle Whitcom. In Sept. 1902 they moved to Carrington, N.D., returning to Grinnell the 5th day of the last month.

Two days after reaching home Mr. Cooper was stricken with typhoid fever and on Monday morning the 28th, at six o'clock he passed away to his long home.

A young man of 24 years of age, in the very morning of his life, has been taken from our midst. There are left behind to mourn his death a young wife and child, father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, sisters and brothers all of his immediaate family.

These sorrowing ones will have the sympathy of a large community of friends in this dark hour of bereavement.

Fred was a young man of amiable character and kindly disposition, and he will be missed by all who knew him and especially by those who knew him best. He became a Christian at an early age, and it is beleived that he has gone to receive the Christian's "Welcome Home."