Meade County, SD Obituaries.....Cooper, Ida Mary Jane April 22, 1949
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Black Hills Press  28 April 1949
Funeral services for Mrs. Ida May Cooper, 75 years of age, were held at the 
First Prebyterian church in Sturgis on Monday afternoon at two o'clock. The 
Rev. Carroll D. Erskine officiated. Mrs George Malcolm presided at the 
organ,and the following church youth quartette,DeElda Woodle,Bladon 
Cruickshank,Karen Denu and Valorie Cox sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,"
"No Night There," and "Rock of  Ages."
The pallbearers were Clarence Johnson,LeRoy and Clayton Thompson,Charles 
Rose,Freeman Hanson, and Donald Philippar.Internment was in Bear Butte 
cemetery under the direction of the F. O. Jolley Funeral home. The Sturgis 
W.C.T.U. attended the service in a body and occupied special pews in a 
reserved section.
Ida Mae Rupe daughter of Reason and Malinda Rupe was born in Centerville,Ia.  
September 15 1873. They came to the Black Hills in 1882,and settled in 
Pleasant Valley.In July 1894 she was married to Thomas Henry Cooper,who 
preceded her in death,october 13 1935.
Eight children survie:two sons henry Neil an Carroll D. Cooper,of Sturgis; and 
six daughters.Mrs.Madge Robinson.Lakeport,Calif;Mrs.Susie 
Gillespie,Lead;Rene,Maud and May of Sturgis;and Mrs.June Johnson,of Bear Butte 
Valley.There are fifteen grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.Three 
sisters;Mrs. Ellen Davis,Sturgis;Mrs.Chet 
Cedaholm,Vancouver,Washington;Mrs.Flora Cooper,San Francisco,Calif;two 
brothers Lee Rupe,Oreville,Calif;and Arthur Rupe,Sturgis.
Mrs.Cooper was a member of the First Prebyterian church;of theSturgis 
W.C.T.U.;and the Degree of Honor.She was essentially a home mother,devoted 
with a strong devotion and fidelity to the family interest and the happiness 
and welfare of her loved ones.She was a woman of generosity and a supporter of 
all good causes;a kindly neighbor and a woman of high integrity and 
character.She will be greatly missed in the family circle and by her legion of 
friends.
She served for over ten years as a faithful treasuer of the Sturgis W.C.T.U.  

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