Cooper, Charles Robert 1881-1924

COOPER, HOUT

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg (email)
Date: 5/24/2016 at 09:55:04

Hawarden Independent April 10, 1924
DEATH CAUSED BY PNEUMONIA
CHARLES COOPER DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Resided in This Community Twenty-five Years.—Funeral Held Here
Tuesday Afternoon
Charles R. Cooper, a well known farmer of this vicinity, passed away at his home a few miles northwest of Hawarden, during the early hours of Sunday morning:, following an illness
of a week or ten days from pneumonia. He was not regarded as seriously ill until about two days prior to his death. Brief funeral services were held at the home at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
and at the M. E. church in this city at 2:30, conducted by Rev. W. A. Winter- Stein, pastor of the church. Interment was made in Grace Hill cemetery.

Charles Robert Cooper was born at Werley, Wis., Oct. 9, 1881, so was 42 years, 5 months and 27 days old at the time of his death. He came to Iowa with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Cooper, in 1898 and they located in this vicinity. On Nov. 8, 1905, he was united in marriage with Stella May Hout. Five children were born to this union but one son, Harold, passed away in infancy. Besides the widow, the children who survive are Charles, Fanny, Hazel and Clarence. He also leaves one step-daughter, Mrs. Vivian Milliken of this city. His father passed away about twelve years ago but
his aged mother, Mrs. Mary Cooper, is still a resident of this city. He also leaves one brother and four sisters, Thomas Cooper of O'Neill, Neb., Mrs. L. E. Morlan of Hot Springs, Ark., Mrs. E. Barnum and Mrs. George Luckey of Hawarden, and Mrs. M. J. Sloggett of Fremont, Neb. His brother
and all of his sisters were here to attend the funeral.

For more than twenty-five years Charles Cooper was & resident of this community and was actively engaged in operating a farm for about twenty years of that time. He farmed for many years just a few miles west of Hawarden but a year ago this spring moved onto the place owned by his sister, Mrs. L. E. Morlan, northwest of town. About ten years ago he united with the Methodist church of this city. He was a hard working man, steady and reliable, a splendid neighbor, devoted to his^ family, and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. His death is a severe blow to the wife and family of young children, as well as to his aged mother, his brother and sisters, and sincere sympathy goes out from the entire community.