COOPER, Harvey

Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff, Arizona Published 8/26/1946 Page 3 Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 3:30 from the Church of the Epiphany for Harvey N Cooper, 38, who died Saturday evening at 5 o'clock in Flagstaff Hospital, following a major surgery that was performed Friday morning. The Rev. George E. Goodeham officiated at tbe services with members of the B. P. 0. Elks lodge, of which the deceased was a member, assisting. The body will be sent this evening to Sacramento, Calif., where interment will be in the Memorial Mausoleum near his mother, who preceded him in death in 1937. Additional funeral services will be held in California City from the Harry Nauman and Son Funeral parlor on 28th street, with the B. P. 0. Elks lodge in charge of arrangements. The deceased was born February 7, 1908 in San Francisco, and came to Flagstaff with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Cooper, when two years of age. He received his early education here and graduated from Phoenix High School. He attended the Herld Business College in Sacramento and after completing his business education returned and was employed several years as cashier in the First National Bank and later in the Arizona Bank. Since 1933 he has been affiliated with his father in the retail liquor business, owning and operating Cooper's Bar. A former member of the Flagstaff Masonic Lodge, he was also member of the Methodist Church. He had been in ill health for the greater part of his life, and more than 12 years ago underwent major surgery at Mayo Brothers in Rochester, Minn. He and his wife and family returned to Flagstaff about two weeks ago from more than three week visit in Minnesota with her father and other relatives, and while there Mr Cooper went through the Mayo clinic and learned that a major operation was necessary immediately. One of Flagstaff's youngest and most successful business men, he leaves a family and a host of friends to mourn his passing. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mabel Wedin Cooper and twin daughters, Janice and Joanne, nine, and another daughter, Judith Ann, age two and one-half; his father, J. R. Cooper, and his sister Miss Florence Cooper of Los Angeles; hismaternal grandmother, Mrs. Ida I. Schoolcraft, an aunt, Miss Fleeta Schcolcraft, both of Sacramento, three uncles, E. O. Schoolcraft of Houston, Texas, Emory Schoolcraft of Washington, D, C.; and D.E. Cooper of Livingston, Cal., and another aunt, Miss Georgiana Cooper of Livingston. Pall bearers included T. M. Knoles, Jr., Fred W. Moore, Harold L. Haffer, Ernest J. Yost, Phillip Nackard, Harry G. Moore, H. C. McQuatters, Chester Anderson, J. C. Brown, and Jack Stewart of Phoenix. Honorary pall bearers included John Andrews, Charles W. Isham, K. L. Webber, Alex Cowan, Graham R. McNary, Jack Blair, Paul Schippnick, Zennie McCoy, R.G. Scanlon, R. A/ Bledsoe, Lynn A. Brown, C. C. Cheshire, Dr. C. C. Creighton, B. A, Cameron, Jr., Wong June, Frank Quirk, Frank Snider. Frank L Christensen, R. E. Henry, Fred E. Henderson, John G.Babbitt, Joe P. Pyland, Gordon Evans, J. C. Maxwell, A. H. Souris, S. 0. Morrow, Fred Nackard, J. Peery Francis, Herbert Hilkins, Russell Sweitzer, Art Vendevier. Milt B. Cram, of Fredonia, Claude Melick, R. R. Mowrey, and Charles M. Proctor, of Williams; T. M. Knoles, Sr., M. E. Tackitt, George Peterson, George C. Walters, Jr., Orrin E. Webber, and Waldo Thomas of Tempe, Ray Whitson and Grover C Jones of Phoenix.