Betty Jo Cooper, 77, of Cooper, Texas passed away on Monday, August 31, 2009 at Rockwall Nursing Center in Rockwall, Texas. Services will be at 2:00 PM Thursday at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel in Greenville, Texas with Rev. C. Don Burke officiating. Visitation will be from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Wednesday at the funeral home. Interment will be at 2:00 PM Friday at Vaughn Cemetery in Gilmore, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Cooper was born on March 28, 1932 in Gilmore, Oklahoma to Henry Lewis and Lillie Belle Barker Callaway. On April 10, 1949, she married Douglas Leroy Cooper in Mena, Arkansas. She was a homemaker and served as a missionary with her husband for over twenty years. They served in Navaho Indian Missions in Oklahoma and New Mexico. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church of God. For several years, she served as a volunteer for the Committee on Aging in Wolfe City, Texas.
Her survivors include her husband of over sixty years; three sons Dan Cooper and wife Betty of Greenville,TX, Charles Cooper and wife Sherry of Leonard, TX, Anthony Cooper and wife Deborah of Farmersville, TX; sister Ruby Thomas of Bakersfield, California; 12 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-grandchild; and numerousl nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; infant daughter Sonia Norene Cooper; brothers Tom & Lewis Callaway; sisters Gussie Moore, Jessie Phillips, Leeada Hitcher, Ella Carpenter, Belle Ray, Helen Ray, and Evie Callaway.
