Nov. 20, 2002
Ralph Cooper Jr. services Friday
Graveside services for Ralph W. Cooper Jr., 31, Centralia, Ill., and formerly of West Plains, will be 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 22, 2002, at Hillcrest Cemetery, Centralia, under the direction of Garnier and Sons Funeral Home of Centralia.
Mr. Cooper died Sunday. Nov. 17, 2002, the result of injuries suffered in a motor vechicle accident at Centralia. He was born March 6, 1971, at West Plains, the son of Ralph W. Cooper Sr. and Shirley Collins Cooper Reno.
He attended schools at West Plains, Cabool and Houston.
On Feb. 25, 2002, he was married at Salem, Ill., to Geneva "Genny" Parker.
Mr. cooper had been an appliance repair and delivery man.
He was of the Protestant faith.
Survivors include his wife Genny Cooper, Centralia, his children, Kayla Cheyenne Cooper and Brandon Wayne Cooper, Caulfield; his father and stepmother, Ralph and Juanita Cooper Sr., Licking, one sister, Angelia Kilpatrick, Joplin; one brother, Michael Cooper, Joplin, two step brothers, billy Bishop II and Jeremey Bishop, both of Licking; one half brother, Josh Reno, Joplin; a special mother-in-law, Nellie Norville, Central City; and his grandmother, Alta Roberson, West Plains.
He was preceded in death by his mother