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Jack Wesley Cooper
Jun 6, 1925 - Jul 30, 2013
Posted by: Sherry
Jack Wesley Cooper,
age 88, passed away on Saturday, July 20, 2013 in the Sterling House,
Stillwater, OK.
Jack was born June
6, 1925 in Smithfield, Ark. He was the only child to Leon & Ida Cooper.
Although he didn’t like being an only child, he kept himself busy with his
dog and fishing. He liked to carry his fightin’ chickens to school in a
gunnysack so the kids called him ‘Chicken Coop’. Jack thought that he would
like going into the service, so his father signed the papers for him to join
at the age of 17. Jack entered the Navy during WWII in 1942. He became a
Navy Seal and was the Coxson (top man) of a landing craft equipped with a
machine gun and flame-thrower. During his service, Jack became one of the
Atomic Veterans. 4 years later, the war ended and Jack returned home to
Moore. There, he married his first wife, Valeta, who was the mother of his
son, Mike. He went to work for about 2 years at E.D. Hill in Oklahoma City
as an engineer. He moved his family to Tryon where he bought a farm, but,
then, went to work at Tinker and continued to work there until retirement.
Once retired, he spent all his time farming and ranching. He employed
several young men from the Tryon and Agra area to help him haul hay. Those
men have remained a bright spot in his heart. During the late 70’s, Jack
started a company named V & C with his good friend Shortie Vassar that
supplied water to drilling rigs. Since they didn’t know what they were doing
at first, they paid the first company that they worked with $100 to get
their foot in the door. It took less than 2 years for Jack to realize that
that was too much work and didn’t leave time to do anything else. So, he
sold his part of the business to continue farming. After Valeta passed away,
he married his second wife, Colleen, a long-time friend from Midwest City.
After 12 years of marriage, Colleen passed away. He, then, married Juanita
(Molloy) Porter. He said that she was the light of his life and he’d never
met a woman like her. She showed him how to take care of those cows. She
insisted and went with him to check the springer cows twice a day. That was
the only time in his ranching career that he never lost a calf. Juanita
passed away in 1990 after only 13 months of marriage.
Jack always wanted
people to know that he was a good man and he believed in God.
Jack was preceded in
death by his parents, 3 wives and his only child, Michael Paul Cooper.
Jack leaves behind 3
grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild; Michael
and Neeta Cooper of Hurst, TX and their 4 children, Christopher, Rebekah,
Megan and Zoe, Angla Tallman of Cushing, OK and her son, Shelby, and Dustin
Cooper of Chandler, OK, and his son, Jackson and Jackson’s daughter, Willow
of Shawnee. He, also, leaves behind his special friends, Randy and Paula
Porter of Agra, Tommy Welch of Carney, Randy Tallman of Cushing, Chris
McCutchen of Perkins and Enny Kriswari of Stillwater.
Funeral services
have been entrusted to the care of the Palmer Marler Funeral Home in
Cushing and will be held at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 23, 2013 in the
Palmer Marler Funeral Home Chapel, Cushing, OK. Burial will be held in
the Resthaven Memory Gardens, Oklahoma City, OK.
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