Unknown County IA Archives Obituaries.....McConaughy, Grace Marie February 2001
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Sheridan WY
Our beloved Grace Marie McConaughy passed away at 92 years of age on February
17, 2001, at Sheridan County Memorial Hospital in Sheridan, Wyoming.
    Memorial services will be held on Saturday, February 24, 2001, 11:00 AM at
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church with Father David Duprey and The Reverend Ray Clark
officiating.  Her last wishes were to be cremated and buried next to her late
husband, Bob McConaughy, in the Elks Cemetery in Sheridan. There will be a
luncheon at 1:00 PM at the Story Woman’s Club in Story, Wyoming.   Kane Funeral
Home is handling the arrangements.
     Grace was born on November 19, 1908, in Iowa to Harry and Maud Campbell. 
Sheridan, Wyoming became the family home when grace was two years old.  She
graduated from Sheridan High School when only 16 years old, and married her
husband Vivian Cooper at the age of 17.  Grace and Vivian were the proud parents
of Jimmie Cooper, who went on to be a successful pianist.  Grace spent the
majority of her working years at Ernst’s Saddle Shop in Sheridan.  There she
created hundreds of well-known leather outfits, worn by Miss Cheyenne Frontier
Rodeo Queens; Sheridan WYO Rodeo Queens; parade contestants and famous actors
such as Robert Taylor.
        In 1950, Grace married Bob McConaughy and moved to Rosebud Lane in
Story, Wyoming. There she lived out her dreams until she departed this life. 
Grace spent most of her time with the family and friends that she loved.  She
bowled in bowling leagues, was an avid golfer, loved to camp and pack up in the
mountains, and thoroughly enjoyed being a part of the
Story Woman’s Club.  She loved to sew and quilt, she attended many weekly card
parties, had a passion for world travel and spent the rest of her waking hours
reading novels and working crossword puzzles.
        Grace was preceded in death by her husband, Bob McConaughy (1975); her
son, Jimmie Cooper (1988); her grandson Gregory Cooper (1963); her three
sisters, Helen, Mildred and Frances Campbell, and her younger brother Jim Willard.
        Survivors include granddaughters, Christy Burnett of Erie, Colorado, and
Stephanie Cooper of Monument, Colorado.  Grace has one great-grandson, Scottie
Burnett.  She was also blessed with dozens of nieces and nephews, including
Nanette Carlson and Dave and Sher Oakes of Sheridan.
        Memorials in memory of Grace may be made to the Story Woman’s Club, in
care of Delphine Toner, First Interstate Bank, P.O. Box 2007, Sheridan, WY, 82801
    Grace is now in the loving arms of her Lord and Savior.


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