Brooksie Mae (Hubbard) Cooper 1921 - 2018

Cameron - Brooksie Mae (Hubbard) Cooper was born April 23, 1921 in rural Lathrop to Virgil and Callie (Smith) Hubbard.  She passed away June 24, 2018 surrounded by family in Cameron.

She attended grade school at Brooking and graduated in 1939 from Lathrop High School.  She married Donald Emsley Cooper October 21, 1941.  This union was blessed with four children.  Don and Brooksie started their family while living at Elmira where Gary, Larry and Sue were born.  Don and Brooksie moved their family to rural Lathrop where Carol was born.  In 1957 they bought a farm near Cameron where they spent their remaining years.

Brooksie and Don were members of the Prairie Ridge Christian Union Church of rural Polo.  When they moved to Cameron they became members of the First Baptist Church of Cameron.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 68 years, Donald Cooper; parents, Virgil and Callie Hubbard; brothers, Fred, Herbert, Lowell, Jack, Raymond and Bill Hubbard; sisters, Mary Eunice Hubbard, Bertha Grady and Bonnie Fry; daughter-in-law, Coralie (Carson) Cooper; grandson, Gregory Cooper and son-in-law, David Lynn Stollings.

Brooksie is survived by two sons, Gary Cooper and wife Sandy, Larry Cooper and wife Monica, all of Kansas City; two daughters, Sue Coy of Cameron and Carol Stollings of Osceola; 13 grandkids, 20 great-grandkids; brother, James Hubbard of Cameron and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Services will be held at the Cameron First Baptist Church Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 2 P.M.  The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 P.M.  Burial will be in the Cameron Memory Gardens Cemetery.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Cameron First Baptist Church or Prairie Ridge Christian Union Church in care of the Sheldon-Goodrich Funeral Home, P.O. Box 384, Osceola, Missouri 64776