Vesta Hooper
VESTA BROWN HOOPER
Newspaper.
Funeral services for Vesta Brown Hooper, 84, of Farmersville, who died Tuesday in Dallas at Walnut Place after a lengthy illness will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Fielder-Baker Funeral Home Chapel in Farmersville with Rev. Ben Read officiating. Interment will be in IOOF Cemetery with Fielder-Baker Funeral Home of Farmersville in charge of the services.
Hooper was born Jan. 12, 1902 in Hurst. She was the granddaughter of William Leechworth Hurst, an early Tarrant County pioneer for whom the city of Hurst was named after. She was also the widow of Charles Hooper, whom she married in 1928, he was a native of Jefferson and a fourth generation Texas to be involved in the lumber and building business.
During the 1920s she was employed by the civil service and commuted to Dallas from Ft. Worth by Interurban to work as a court reporter and later as an aide to James V. Allred in the Federal office of Prohibition and Enforcement. For 20 years she was business manager and interior design consultant for Hooper Lumber Company in Farmersville. She also served as an officer on the board of directors of Town and Country Savings Association until 1981.
She was a member of the John Abston Chapter of Daughters of The American Revolution, the Ft. Worth Club, Ridglea Country Club, Eldorado Country Club and the First Methodist Church in Farmersville.
Survivors include two daughters: Ann Hooper Stacy of Richardson, and Carol Hooper of Dallas; three grandchildren: Dr. Charles Stacy of Ft. Worth, Keith Stacy of Richardson and Emily Stacy of Austin.
Newspaper.
Funeral services for Vesta Brown Hooper, 84, of Farmersville, who died Tuesday in Dallas at Walnut Place after a lengthy illness will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Fielder-Baker Funeral Home Chapel in Farmersville with Rev. Ben Read officiating. Interment will be in IOOF Cemetery with Fielder-Baker Funeral Home of Farmersville in charge of the services.
Hooper was born Jan. 12, 1902 in Hurst. She was the granddaughter of William Leechworth Hurst, an early Tarrant County pioneer for whom the city of Hurst was named after. She was also the widow of Charles Hooper, whom she married in 1928, he was a native of Jefferson and a fourth generation Texas to be involved in the lumber and building business.
During the 1920s she was employed by the civil service and commuted to Dallas from Ft. Worth by Interurban to work as a court reporter and later as an aide to James V. Allred in the Federal office of Prohibition and Enforcement. For 20 years she was business manager and interior design consultant for Hooper Lumber Company in Farmersville. She also served as an officer on the board of directors of Town and Country Savings Association until 1981.
She was a member of the John Abston Chapter of Daughters of The American Revolution, the Ft. Worth Club, Ridglea Country Club, Eldorado Country Club and the First Methodist Church in Farmersville.
Survivors include two daughters: Ann Hooper Stacy of Richardson, and Carol Hooper of Dallas; three grandchildren: Dr. Charles Stacy of Ft. Worth, Keith Stacy of Richardson and Emily Stacy of Austin.
