Merle Cooper, a 75-year-old resident of Boulder City, NV, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003 in the Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, NV.
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Merle Cooper, a 75-year-old resident of Boulder City, NV, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003 in the Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, NV.
The body was cremated and memorial services and burial were held on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2003 at the Southern Nevada Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City, NV with her nephew, Steve Ross of Valley Center, CA officiating.
Mrs. Cooper was born on Sept. 24, 1927 in Bingham Canyon, UT, the daughter of Alonzo John and Ruby Hazel Bodel Skinner. She was married to Wood Cooper on June 7, 1947 in Trenton. She and her husband farmed in Half Rock before moving to a mining camp in Patterson, ID. They moved back to Half Rock, farming for awhile, then on to Seattle, WA and Riverton, WY where she worked in the school cafeteria. From Riverton, they moved to Mt. Pass, CA, a mining camp, where she was employed as a lab technician until her retirement in 1982. After retirement, she and her husband moved to Chillicothe where they lived close to family members. After two years, they moved to Boulder City to be closer to their children. She loved her family, playing cards, baking and making candy.
Mrs. Cooper is survived by three sons, Lewis E. Cooper and his wife, Kris, of Avondale, AZ, and James Robert “Bob” Cooper and his wife, Sandy, and Richard Ray “Joe” Cooper and his wife, Jackie, all of Barstow, CA; one daughter, Linda McBride and her husband, Dennis, of Mt. Pass, CA; 11 grandchildren, Brian McBride, Brett Cooper, Jodi Cooper Robinson, James Cooper, Josh McBride, Jake McBride, Jess McBride, Trevor Cooper, Ashley Cooper, Whitney Cooper and Riley McBride; 13 great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews, including Marilyn Ross Marshall of Princeton; two sisters, Lorraine Cunningham of Boulder City, NV and Hazel Young of Colorado Springs, CO; and one sister-in-law, Norma Cooper of Sun City, AZ.
Mrs. Cooper was preceded in death by her husband, Wood Cooper, on Jan. 5, 2003; her parents; one sister, Juanita; a brother and sister-in-law, Kenneth and Maxine Ross Cooper; one brother-in-law, Robert Cooper; and one nephew, Bobby Young.