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J.D. Cooper
J.D. Cooper
May 11, 1912 - June 13, 1994
Services for J.D. Cooper, age 82, of Hollow Rock, were held Thursday, June 16th, 2 p.m., at the Faith Baptist Church, Hollow Rock with Rev. Steve Davis officiating. Dr. Steve Atwood, Rev. Joe Harris, Mr. Ray Smith and Mr. LeRoy Seagraves assisted with the officiating. Burial was in Prospect Cemetery. Dilday Funeral Home was in charge of services.
Mr. Cooper died Monday, June 13th, at 11:15 p.m. at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon.
He was born May 11, 1912, in the Spanish Grove Community of Carroll County, son of Charles Preston and Armenta (Minnie) Elizabeth Brinkley Cooper.
He was a retired farmer and owner and operator of the Hollow Rock Gin Co. for thirty-six years and Rosser Gin Co. for seven years.
Mr. Cooper was a member and honorary deacon of Faith Baptist Church and had served as an active deacon for forty-seven years and several other places of service during his lifetime to the church and the Carroll-Benton Baptist Association. He had been a Gideon for twenty-four years. He was named to the Board of Directors of the Home Bank of Hollow Rock in 1945 and later to the Board of the Bank of Huntingdon. He had served with the Carroll County Equalization Board, Republican Executive Committee, ASCS Committee, Farm Bureau Director, and Mid-South Ginners Association.
Mr. Cooper is survived by his wife of 54 years, Allene Rosson Cooper; one daughter, Lillian C. Rice; two sons, Charles D. Cooper and Gregory N. Cooper, all of Hollow Rock; two granddaughters, Alicia Rice Sills of Jackson and Kayla D. Cooper of Hollow Rock; two grandsons, Michael Madden Cooper and Brent Cooper Rice both of Hollow Rock; a step-grandson, Jacob Davis of Hollow Rock; three great-grandchildren, Emily, Andrew and Bradley Sills all of Jackson and two sisters, Kate Hall of McKenzie and Bessie Baker of Martin.
Mr. Cooper was preceded in death by one sister, Hazel Cole, and two brothers, Charles Virgil Cooper, Sr., and Robert Buford Cooper.
The eight pallbearers were Michael Cooper, Brent Rice, C.V. Cooper, Jr., Jackie Hall, John Baker, Gary Baker, Melvin Hargis and Billy Sills.
Honorary pallbearers were Roy Tarwater, William Smothers, Sam McCoy, Howard Johns, and Bill Eubanks, and his fellow Gideons and Deacons.