Dougherty-Colquitt County GaArchives Obituaries.....Cooper, William Turner "Dub" January 14, 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Yeager annmarkvii@yahoo.com and Freddy Page December 27, 2007, 5:49 am 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/dougherty/obits/c/cooper11166ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb