Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cooper, F. Stanley, 1976 

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FREDERICK STANLEY COOPER 

F.S. COOPER 

DENDRON - F. Stanley Cooper, 78, died Thursday at his home in Dendron. 

  He was a retired Surry County farmer and sawmill operator and a member of 
Rocky Hock United Methodist Church.

  Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Beulah Kee Cooper; two step-daughters, 
Mrs. Claudia Johnson of Wayne, Mich. and Mrs. Grace Collins of Suffolk; and 
a stepson, Maurice J. Kee of Detroit, Mich. 

  A funeral will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Purviance Funeral Home, 
Wakefield, by the Rev. F.A. Duncan and the Rev. L.T. Bland. 

  Burial will be in Rocky Hock Church Cemetery, Surry County. 

  The family requests expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions 
to the Surry County Rescue Squad. 

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FREDERICK STANLEY COOPER 

  Frederick Stanley Cooper, 78, died Sept. 16 (1976) in his home. 

  A native of Surry County, he was the husband of Mrs. Beulah Kee Cooper. 

  He was a retired Surry County farmer and sawmill operator. 

  He was a member of Rocky Hock United Methodist Church. 

  Other survivors include two step-daughters, Mrs. Grace Collins of 
Whaleyville and Mrs. Claudia Johnson of Wayne, Mich.; a stepson, Maurice J. 
Kee of Detroit; and nieces and nephews. 

  A funeral was held Sept. 19, at 2:30 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Chapel, 
Wakefield, by the Rev. Floyd A. Duncan and the Rev. L.P. Bland.  Burial was 
in Rocky Hock Church Cemetery. 

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ROCKY HOCK CHURCH BULLETIN - REMEMBERING: 
   FREDERICK STANLEY COOPER - 1897 - 1976 

  Stanley Cooper was a longtime and faithful member of Rocky Hock Church.  He 
drove a horse-drawn school wagon for kids attending Forest View School (on the 
site where Kitty and Joe Hancock live) for many years.  He owned and ran a 
sawmill on the farm, and lived in the farmhouse where David and Diane Barlow 
live today.  People would take their own trees to Stanley, and he made many 
peanut sticks over the years for shocking peanuts.  Stanley was very good in 
math and with numbers.  Whenever he loaded a truck with lumber, he could 
calculate in his head the board feet and what was owed to him by his customer. 
The steam engine that he used to run his sawmill is now in a heritage museum. 
He also could remember people's birthdates and their dates of death, as well 
as what the weather was on those days! 

   He was custodian at Rocky Hock Church for many years, and during that time 
he had the only key to the church.  If one wanted to get into the church, one 
needed to see Stanley!  One of his duties was to shovel coal to keep the coal 
furnace at the church burning during the winters, and maintain the furnace. 
The largest salary that Stanley received as custodian from Rocky Hock Church 
was $400, not quite $8 a week! 

  Stanley Cooper gave the well and water system that the church has today to 
the church.  Stanley felt the old well, which was near the rear of the church, 
was too close to the cemetery and the well water "did not taste right." 
(Ironically, there was an underground oil tank just a few feet from this well, 
but that did not seem to bother him!) 

  Stanley enjoyed music and loved to play the fiddle.  He often played the 
fiddle with Floyd Joyner of Wakefield.  His first wife was Myrtie Matthews 
Cooper, and his second wife was Beulah Kee Cooper.  Stanley and his first wife 
are buried in Rocky Hock Cemetery. 

  Thanks to Dorothy Joyner Hobbs, Floyd's daughter for the photograph. 


Frederick Stanley COOPER, farmer & sawmill owner/operator, 
b. 12 Oct 1897, Surry Co., d. 16 Sep 1976, at home, Dendron, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 7*), Surry Co., 
   19 Sep 1976, 
"Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Sep. 17, 1976, p. 20; 
donated obit, publication unknown; 
Rocky Hock Church bulletin 

*Rocky Hock list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/cemeteries/rockyhk.txt 

A photo of his gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137183411. 

His first wife's obit (Daily Press," Jan. 10, 1964, p. 10) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/c160m5ob.txt 

His parents, Charles Chester & Rosa Virginia (PRICE**) COOPER, 
   m. 8 Dec 1895.  (Surry Co. M.Reg. {BVS copy} 1895, p. 407 #18) 
   They are buried in a COOPER family cemetery in Surry Co. 

His father, son of John & Susan (LUCAS) COOPER, was also a sawmill operator. 
   His clothing caught fire while weeds & trash at home, 5 May 1952. 
   He was buried in a COOPER family cemetery in Surry Co. 
   (D.Cert. 12757 {Cobham #4}) 

**Stanley's D.Cert. 76-027973 gives his mother's maiden name as CLARKE. 
   She was the daughter of Frederick T. & Mary E. (SHEFFIELD) PRICE, 
   who m. 13 Apr 1871 in Surry Co. 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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