Date of Birth: 26 Jan 1906
Place of Birth: Cumby, Texas
Date of Death: 05 Oct 1985
Place of Death: Quanah, Hardeman, Texas
Date of Burial: 07 Oct 1985
Place of Burial: Quanah Memorial Park, Quanah, Hardeman, Texas

Name of Funeral Home: Knowles Funeral Home
Location of Funeral Home: Quanah, Texas
Date of Funeral: 07 Oct 1985
Time of Funeral: 4:00 p.m.
Officiator: Dr. Nodell Dennis

Relationship to Hardeman County: lived in Hardeman County since 1924

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Obituary: Rites Held For Doyle B. Cooper, 79

Doyle B. Cooper, 79, of 1006 West 6th Street in Quanah, died Saturday, Oct.5, at the Hardeman County Memorial Hospital in Quanah.

Funeral services were conducted Monday, Oct. 7, at 4 p.m. from the First Baptist Church in Quanah with the pastor, Dr. Nodell Dennis, officiating. Burial was in Quanah Memorial Park under dirction of Knowles Funeral Home.

Mr. Cooper was born at Cumby, Tex. on Jan. 26, 1906. He moved to Hardeman County in 1924 from Hunt County. He married the former Bessie Slaton on April 7, 1928 in Cottle County.

Survivors include his wife, Bessie Cooper, of Quanah; two daughters, Frieda Cooper of Quanah and Glenda Cooper Holley of Montrose, Colo.; a son, William Raymond (Bill) Cooper of Quanah; two brothers, Jessie Dale Cooper and Albert Brown Cooper, both of Sulphur Springs; five sisters, Juanita Defoor of Paducah, Hughlene Irvin, Coy Drybread and Ruth Beasley, all of Bisbee, Ariz., and Ruby Mann of Sulphur Springs; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Submitted by Jeannette Mastrovich