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William Frederick Cooper - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, March 9, 1956

Funeral Services For W. F. Cooper Held Wednesday

Funeral services for William Frederick Cooper were held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the 
Tallulah Methodist Church with the Rev. W. F. Mayo, pastor, officiating, assisted by the Rev. 
John Kilpatrick, pastor of the Rayville Methodist Church. Burial followed in the Masonic Cemetery in 
Rayville with Young's Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.

Mr. Cooper died Monday morning in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital from injuries received in an automobile 
accident in north Mississippi on February 26.

A native of Rayville, La., he had made his home in Tallulah for a number of years. Mr. Cooper had been 
connected with the Co-Operative Gin Company.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Doris Tanner Cooper, and four children, Berna, Marvin Clinton, Virginia 
and Elizabeth, all of Tallulah; his mother, Mrs. G. L. Compton of New Orleans; his father, Walter F. Cooper, Sr., 
of Valley Park, Miss.; three sisters, Mrs. Harry Status of New Orleans, Miss Sue Cooper and Miss Sally Cooper, 
both of Valley Park, Miss. ; and two brothers, Jack Cooper and Walter F. Cooper, Jr., both of Valley Park, Miss.

Pallbearers were G. R. Whetstone, W. F. Powell, E. E. Shamblin (and others.)