COOPER, WALTER
TAPS SOUNDED FOR WORLD WAR VETERAN
McKinney Democrat, June 7, 1934
WALKER [sic] T. COOPER GIVEN HONORS BY HIS COMRADES AT INTERMENT
A semi-military funeral was accorded Walter T. Cooper, a veteran of the World’s war, in Pecan Grove cemetery, this city, Tuesday afternoon, June 5. The deceased died early Monday morning in the hospital, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he had been under treatment for a couple of months.
While serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps at the camp, at Canyon, Texas, his right leg became infected, and he was taken to the hospital for treatment at Fort Sill. In an effort to save his life, the leg was amputated, but relief could not be obtained and he died as stated, on June 4.
Carl McDonald of the Harris Funeral home and I. G. Golden, a McKinney carpenter and brother-in-law of the deceased, went to Fort Sill in one of the C. C. Harris funeral cars and conveyed the body back to the native home city of the deceased where funeral services were held in the Harris Funeral Home parlors at 4:00 o’clock Tuesday afternoon conducted by Dr. Minor Bounds, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city, where the deceased attended Sunday school in childhood and in early life became a member of.
By request of the family, Hon. H. H. Neilson, a lieutenant in the World war and good friend of the family, also made a brief address. Mr. Neilson paid tribute to Mr. Cooper as a soldier and praised him for his loyalty and interest in helping to receive the bodies of deceased soldiers shipped back from Europe for burial in their home cemeteries over Collin County.
Active pallbearers were Frank Hartsfield, Jesse Hartsfield, Tom Faires, Merritt Braswell, Jess Creason and Morris Gay.
The casket was covered by a large American flag under which emblem the deceased had served on the battlefronts of France for a year as a member of Co. B, 144th Infantry, Thirty-Sixth Division, American Expeditionary Forces.
After the final word of Dr. Bounds at the graveside, Hi Wilmeth, a World war comrade sounded “Taps” on his bugle as a final remark of respect to the memory of the deceased veteran.
The large flag that draped the casket was removed by two other veterans and quickly folded after which the casket was lowered and the body left to sleep beside the grave of his mother, who preceded him in death about ten years ago. E. B. Odle of this city, who attended the services, was in the same company overseas with the deceased.
Born in McKinney.
Walter T. Cooper was born in McKinney, May 26, 1893, being forty-one years and seven days old at death. He lacked only a few weeks of completing McKinney High school. He was a carpenter by trade. He is survived by his father, Contractor J. E. Cooper of this city, and also by his wife of Dallas and by two sisters, Mrs. I. G. Golden and Mrs. Bessie McClusky, both of McKinney.
McKinney Democrat, June 7, 1934
WALKER [sic] T. COOPER GIVEN HONORS BY HIS COMRADES AT INTERMENT
A semi-military funeral was accorded Walter T. Cooper, a veteran of the World’s war, in Pecan Grove cemetery, this city, Tuesday afternoon, June 5. The deceased died early Monday morning in the hospital, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he had been under treatment for a couple of months.
While serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps at the camp, at Canyon, Texas, his right leg became infected, and he was taken to the hospital for treatment at Fort Sill. In an effort to save his life, the leg was amputated, but relief could not be obtained and he died as stated, on June 4.
Carl McDonald of the Harris Funeral home and I. G. Golden, a McKinney carpenter and brother-in-law of the deceased, went to Fort Sill in one of the C. C. Harris funeral cars and conveyed the body back to the native home city of the deceased where funeral services were held in the Harris Funeral Home parlors at 4:00 o’clock Tuesday afternoon conducted by Dr. Minor Bounds, pastor of the First Methodist church of this city, where the deceased attended Sunday school in childhood and in early life became a member of.
By request of the family, Hon. H. H. Neilson, a lieutenant in the World war and good friend of the family, also made a brief address. Mr. Neilson paid tribute to Mr. Cooper as a soldier and praised him for his loyalty and interest in helping to receive the bodies of deceased soldiers shipped back from Europe for burial in their home cemeteries over Collin County.
Active pallbearers were Frank Hartsfield, Jesse Hartsfield, Tom Faires, Merritt Braswell, Jess Creason and Morris Gay.
The casket was covered by a large American flag under which emblem the deceased had served on the battlefronts of France for a year as a member of Co. B, 144th Infantry, Thirty-Sixth Division, American Expeditionary Forces.
After the final word of Dr. Bounds at the graveside, Hi Wilmeth, a World war comrade sounded “Taps” on his bugle as a final remark of respect to the memory of the deceased veteran.
The large flag that draped the casket was removed by two other veterans and quickly folded after which the casket was lowered and the body left to sleep beside the grave of his mother, who preceded him in death about ten years ago. E. B. Odle of this city, who attended the services, was in the same company overseas with the deceased.
Born in McKinney.
Walter T. Cooper was born in McKinney, May 26, 1893, being forty-one years and seven days old at death. He lacked only a few weeks of completing McKinney High school. He was a carpenter by trade. He is survived by his father, Contractor J. E. Cooper of this city, and also by his wife of Dallas and by two sisters, Mrs. I. G. Golden and Mrs. Bessie McClusky, both of McKinney.
