Obits: Cooper,Mortie E.   d. 11/1944
Magoffin County, KY
Aug. 2003
Submitted by ; Magoffin County Genealogy
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Diane Montgomery Parsons
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Obit excerpt taken from a November, 1944 Paintsville newspaper: 

Mortie E. Cooper

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m., at Friendship 
Methodist Church for Mortie E. Cooper, 41, who was killed 
Saturday in an explosion at a nitro-glycerine mixing plant near 
Masonville, Ky., six miles south of Owensboro. 

The plant was operated by the Pringle Powder Co. of Bradford, Pa., 
of which Mr. Cooper, of Fairfield, Ill., was district manager.

Mr. Cooper was born December 9, 1902, in Magoffin County, Ky. 
He is survived by his wife of 23 years, Julia S. Stafford Cooper, and 
two children, Anna Lee Cooper and Mortie Julian Cooper, of 
Fairfield, Ill. 

Also surviving are his father, James Thomas Cooper of Staffordsville, 
Ky.; a sister, Mrs. George (Ival) Collins of Owensboro, and two brothers, 
F.M. Cooper of Stirrat, W. Va., and Glenn Cooper, of Chauncey, W. Va. 
His mother, Phoebe Howington Cooper, preceded him in death. 

Revs. O.D. Pullen and E. B. White will conduct the last rites. 
Burial will follow in the Friendship Cemetery. 

Mr. Cooper was a native of Magoffin county and was widely known 
throughout this section.


Mari Cooper
SuperCooperAH@aol.com 
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