Long Resident of Fannin Dies
TRENTON, Texas – Mrs. Sallie Foster Cooper, 84, widow
of the late J. H. Cooper and resident of Fannin County for 75 years, died
at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday at the home of a son, Jess Cooper of the Desert Community,
with whom she resided.
Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the
Trenton Methodist Church with the Rev. J. A. Henderson of Pink Hill, Baptist
minister, and Otis Profitt, minister of the Leonard Church of Christ, to
officiate. Earnheart will direct interment in the Burns Cemetery
here.
Mrs. Cooper was born at Summerville, Ga., July 7, 1857,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Foster. She came to Texas in 1866,
locating in the Corinith community. Her husband died in 1920.
Mrs. Cooper was a charter member of the old Burns Chapel Presbyterian Church.
Her survivors include four daughters, Mrs. J. D. Davis
and Mrs. Joe Weaver of Leonard; Mrs. Charles Leever of Randolph and Mrs.
Sam Cline of Pike; the son with whom she lived; a brother, W. R. Foster
of Leonard; two sisters, Mrs. Bud Riley and Mrs. Ira Barrett of Trenton;
23 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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