VANDUSER -- Funeral service for Mary M. Alberson Cooper of Vanduser will be held at 11 a.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. Lloyd Boley will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at Sikeston.
Cooper, 84, died Wednesday, June 30, 1993, at her home.
She was born Sept. 16, 1908, in Success, Ark., daughter of Charlie Franklin and Aggnus Sultania Davis. She married Frank Alberson in 1921, who died in 1933. She later married Lester Cooper Jan. 17, 1934, who died in November 1963.
Survivors include four sons, Sam Alberson of Bell City, Roy Alberson of Vanduser, Shirley Cooper of Jasper, Ark., Larry Cooper of Blodgett; a daughter, Lacleda "Sis" Northern of Vanduser; a sister, Temple Roark of Richland; 21 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son, three daughters, a brother, two sisters and three grandsons.
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