Sussex-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cooper, Mary E. Clarke, 1980 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MARY ELIZABETH CLARKE COOPER WAKEFIELD - Mrs. Mary Clarke Cooper, 77, died in a Suffolk nursing home Sunday. She was a native of Surry County, and the widow of Devany Cooper. She was a graduate of Longwood College, a former Surry County school teacher, and a member of the Chasley United Methodist Church. She is survived by a son, Robert D. Cooper of Suffolk; a brother, John T. Clarke of Waverly; and three grandchildren. A graveside funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Wakefield Cemetery by the Rev. L.P. Bland. The family will be at the Purviance Funeral Home in Wakefield from 7 to 8 p.m. tonight. Mary Elizabeth (CLARKE; Mrs. Devany) COOPER, former teacher, b. 22 Sep 1902, Dendron, Surry Co., d. 6 Jul 1980, Suffolk, interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 8 Jul 1980, "The Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," July 7, 1980, p. 2 *Wakefield list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/c160m3ob.txt