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Submitted: 1/7/21 • Approved: 1/7/21 • Last Updated: 1/10/21 • R376823-G376822-S3
1916-1996
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
DUMAS - Grace Cooper Pierson, 79, died Sunday, Feb. 18, 1996 in Dumas Memorial Hospital.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Morrison Memorial Chapel with Mr. Jim York, minister of the Sunray Church of Christ, officiating, assisted by Mr. Willard Simmons, Dumas.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Borger by Morrison Funeral Directors.
A native of Erick, Okla., she had been a Dumas resident since 1982 and was a former Borger resident. She was a retired nurse and worked at the hospital in Borger for more than 20 years. She was a member of the 14th Street Church of Christ in Dumas.
She married Bob Pierson on Sept. 24, 1977 at Dumas.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, John N. Cooper in 1972.
Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Billie Woolsey of Amarillo; Mary York of Sunray; and Glenda Simmons of Dumas; a brother, Buster Chadwell of Amarillo; a sister, Dena Hill of Tecumseh, Okla.; 9 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
The family will be staying at 102 Ted Street in Dumas.
Memorials may be made to Memorial Hospice, 224 E. Second, Dumas, 79029 or Cal Farley's Boys Ranch.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 19, 1996)
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Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Grace Audrey Chadwell
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birth Date: abt 1916
Marriage Date: 24 Nov 1934
Marriage Place: Greer, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Norton John Cooper
Film Number: 001902488
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Grace Pierson
Death Date: 18 Feb 1996
Death County: Moore
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Grace Autry Cooper
[Grace A Pierson]
[Grace Autry Chadwell]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 26 Jul 1916
Birth Place: Erick, Oklahoma
[Erick Beckha??, Oklahoma]
Death Date: 19 Feb 1996
Father: William A Chadwell
Mother: Mary E Waller
Notes: Oct 1951: Name listed as GRACE AUTRY COOPER; 14 Nov 1977: Name listed as GRACE A PIERSON
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