Dougherty-Colquitt County GaArchives Obituaries.....Cooper, William Turner "Dub" January 14, 2003
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The Albany Herald - Obituaries
William Turner Cooper

MOULTRIE — William Turner "Dub" Cooper, 89, of Barbara Circle, Moultrie, died 
Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Cobb Funeral Chapel with interment in 
Big Creek Cemetery. Dr. Jerry Mahan, the Rev. Roger Benton and the Rev. Sam 
Stephens will officiate.

Casketbearers will be Click Peters, Floyd Peters, Ray Pierce, Scott Pierce, 
Chuck Hinson and Harry Hinson.

Dub Cooper was a member of First Baptist Church of Moultrie and served in the 
U.S. Army during World War II. His parents were the late Nancy Eliza Sapp 
Cooper and William Frank Cooper.

Dub Cooper was an entertainer, builder and adventurer. He spent his 89-plus 
years of life entertaining family and friends with his quick wit and unusual 
sense of humor. Dub never let the truth stand in the way of a good story, and 
the tales he spun captivated and sometimes embarrassed his audience. He was 
also a gifted writer, and the postcards he wrote were collected and treasured 
by those who received them.

Dub Cooper loved kids, the smaller the better, and his wife and family secretly 
feared he'd someday be arrested for hugging or kissing some stranger's baby 
while he waited for his beautiful blonde bombshell wife to finish 
shopping. "Daddy loves all things what's little," his baby daughter once 
explained.

Dub Cooper was a builder by profession, and houses he built are spread all 
across South Georgia and North Florida. He thought everybody should have a 
house, and he often worked out arrangements so members of his crew could build 
and live in a home of their own. He'd build a home, move into it, and sell it 
out from under his family. "Your sweet mama," he would tell his children, "is 
the only bride in Georgia who's had more new houses than new dresses since she 
got married."

Dub Cooper was a great adventurer. He traveled with his wife Betty, her brother 
Carroll and Carroll's wife Sylvia by car all over North America from Canada and 
Alaska to Mexico, and he visited Japan and Singapore when in his seventies. Dub 
was notorious for leaving his fellow travelers and getting lost. On a trip to 
see a Georgia Bulldog football game with the Moultrie First Baptist Church 
KeenAgers, Dub wandered off during the game, ended up at a bus station on the 
verge of buying a ticket home, when he called Sam Stephens in Moultrie. Sam 
called the Athens police, who took Dub back to his tour bus where everybody was 
waiting less than patiently for him. Dub said that was an uncomfortably quiet 
trip back to Moultrie.

Dub once decided to take a stroll while visiting his son in Japan. He could see 
water in the distance below the hill where they lived, and he set off to find 
it. He reached the water easily enough; but when he tried to retrace his steps 
back home, he was chased out of the Shinto Cemetery he'd cut across on his trip 
down the hill and lost his bearings. Since all signs were in Japanese and not 
being able to speak the language, Dub wandered about for several hours before 
walking up to a cab and handing over his son's business card and all his 
Japanese money. The cabbie dropped him off at the Naval Base about 10 hours 
after his exploration began.

Dub Cooper loved his family and friends, and he enjoyed his life to the fullest.

Survivors include his wife, Betty Lee Pierce Cooper of Moultrie; son, William 
Turner Cooper Jr. of Albany; daughters, Liza Lee Cooper Newsom of Lake Park, 
GA, and Debra Jo Cooper Evans of Cochran, GA; grandchildren, Christina Louise 
Cooper Vallier, Robert Thomas Cooper, Rachel Leigh Cooper, Jed Carlton Evans, 
Laura Elizabeth Evans; great grandchildren, Carolyn Michelle Vallier, Hillary 
Kay Hawkins, Cade William Cooper, and Parker Riley DePaola.

Visitation will be 6 p.m.- 8 p.m. today at Cobb Funeral Chapel.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to your favorite library.

Cobb Funeral Chapel 

Moultrie 229/985-3704 





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