VIOLA COOPER

ADVANCE -- Funeral service for Viola Cooper of Advance will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Dale Wiseman will officiate, with burial in Rock Point Cemetery near here.

Cooper, 96, died Monday, July 6, 1992, at Advance Nursing Center.

She was born Aug. 20, 1895, at Swinton, daughter of Jonas and Margaret Hawk Bradshaw. She married Earl Cooper April 26, 1918, at Swinton. He died Sept. 6, 1955.

Cooper was a member of the General Baptist Church at Sturdivant.

Survivors include two daughters, Evelyn Wiseman of Advance, Hazel Crites of Puxico; two brothers, Elman Bradshaw of Advance, Robert Bradshaw of St. Louis; 11 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; 15 great-great-grandchildren, and two great-stepgrandsons.

She was preceded in death by a son, five brothers and three sisters.