Besse cooper biography of rory

Besse Cooper Besse Cooper. Please add an image! Birth Date: Later life She married Luther Cooper — inand had four children with him — Angeline b.

Besse cooper biography of rory

Longevity Cooper became Georgia's oldest resident on January 19,following the death of year-old Beatrice Farve. Assign place. Add relation. Twitter Facebook Draugiem. Add condolence Add announce Add memory Set cemetery. Constitution in August She worked as a school teacher until the time of America's entrance to World War I inwhen she moved to Georgia.

She taught in the Walton County town of Between untilbeing the principal teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. She was married to Luther Cooper from until his death in with whom she had four children. She also had eleven grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. In her final years, Cooper lived in a nursing home in Monroe, Georgia.

She is also one of the 3 people to have lost the title of the oldest person but later regained it, the other two being Jeanne Calment and Elizabeth Bolden. Cooper died of respiratory failure on December 4, at age years, days, and was succeeded as the oldest living person by Italian-born Americanwoman Dina Manfrediniwho died just 13 days later.

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