April 21, 1917 ~ April 10, 2005
Lois was born April 21, 1917, in Valparaiso, NE to Remington James and Mary Alice (Leininger) Tennant.
She was raised in Wahoo, NE and graduated from Wahoo High School in the class of 1933. She attended the Lutheran Immanuel Hospital School of Nursing in Omaha, NE.
On October 10, 1942, she married William Anthony Cooper in Missouri Valley, Iowa.
For 25 years she was employed by the Lutheran Immanuel Hospital as a registered nurse, retiring in 1982. The Coopers made their home in Blair for several years until Mr. Cooper's death in September 1982.
In October of 1982, Mrs. Cooper decided to move to Noel, Mo., to be closer to her daughter, Mary.
Mrs. Cooper was a member of the Southwest City United Methodist Church. She enjoyed quilting, embroidery projects, making jewelry, and volunteering at the Noel Women-Infant-Children (W.I.C.) office.
Former Blair resident Lois L. Cooper, 87, died Sunday, April 10, 2005 in her home at Noel, Missouri.
The funeral was 4 pm Wednesday, April 13, in the Ozark Funeral Home Chapel in Noel. Pastor David Munoz conducted the service, offering words of comfort. Musical selections were: "Old Rugged Cross" and "How Great Thou Art".
Interment will follow at a later date in Blair, Nebraska.
Left with memories are two daughters and sons-in-law, Mary Louise and Gene Rosenbohm, of Noel, Mo., and Jean Lorene and Walter Watts of St. Marie, Mont.; a step-daughter, Charlotte Juanita Glaser of Blair; 19 grandchildren; thirty-eight great-grandchildren; a sister, Vera Mann of Seal Beach, Calif.; as well as a host of other family and friends.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Shirley Glaser; a grandson-in-law, Mike Hanke; three sisters, Helen Burns, Marjorie Proctor, and Lorene Falke; and a brother, Ross Tennant.
Ozark Funeral Home, B. J. and Cassidi Goodwin, in service to the family.
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from obituary published in the April 15, 2005 Enterprise, Blair, Nebraska; Funeral leaflet courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska.
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April 21, 1917 ~ April 10, 2005
Lois was born April 21, 1917, in Valparaiso, NE to Remington James and Mary Alice (Leininger) Tennant.
She was raised in Wahoo, NE and graduated from Wahoo High School in the class of 1933. She attended the Lutheran Immanuel Hospital School of Nursing in Omaha, NE.
On October 10, 1942, she married William Anthony Cooper in Missouri Valley, Iowa.
For 25 years she was employed by the Lutheran Immanuel Hospital as a registered nurse, retiring in 1982. The Coopers made their home in Blair for several years until Mr. Cooper's death in September 1982.
In October of 1982, Mrs. Cooper decided to move to Noel, Mo., to be closer to her daughter, Mary.
Mrs. Cooper was a member of the Southwest City United Methodist Church. She enjoyed quilting, embroidery projects, making jewelry, and volunteering at the Noel Women-Infant-Children (W.I.C.) office.
Former Blair resident Lois L. Cooper, 87, died Sunday, April 10, 2005 in her home at Noel, Missouri.
The funeral was 4 pm Wednesday, April 13, in the Ozark Funeral Home Chapel in Noel. Pastor David Munoz conducted the service, offering words of comfort. Musical selections were: "Old Rugged Cross" and "How Great Thou Art".
Interment will follow at a later date in Blair, Nebraska.
Left with memories are two daughters and sons-in-law, Mary Louise and Gene Rosenbohm, of Noel, Mo., and Jean Lorene and Walter Watts of St. Marie, Mont.; a step-daughter, Charlotte Juanita Glaser of Blair; 19 grandchildren; thirty-eight great-grandchildren; a sister, Vera Mann of Seal Beach, Calif.; as well as a host of other family and friends.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Shirley Glaser; a grandson-in-law, Mike Hanke; three sisters, Helen Burns, Marjorie Proctor, and Lorene Falke; and a brother, Ross Tennant.
Ozark Funeral Home, B. J. and Cassidi Goodwin, in service to the family.
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from obituary published in the April 15, 2005 Enterprise, Blair, Nebraska; Funeral leaflet courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska.
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