Cooper, John Isaiah

Funeral services for John Isaiah Cooper, 62 year old leader in southeastern Kansas banking and mining activities, will be held at the First Presbyterian church at 2:30 pm. Monday. The Rev. Ben Walker will officiate. Pallbearers will be Merle Winters, Dick Stroup, Earl Love, Ivan Chubb and Ruby Gibson, all of Baxter Springs Kansas. Burial will be in the Baxter Springs Kansas cemetery under direction of the Wene funeral home. The body will lie in state at the chapel until the funeral hour. Cooper died Friday at the Still-Hildreth sanatarium in Tulsa Oklahoma where he had been a patient since Aug 21. President of the Baxter State Bank for 15 years, Cooper had been in failing health since 1939. He suffered a nervous breakdown three and one-half years ago. Cooper was born in Baxter Springs on Aug 12, 1889, and spent his entire life there. Early in his career he devoted his business life to mining interests that originated with his father, the late John M. Cooper, and later became a large stockholder in the Baxter State bank and remained its active head until his health failed several years ago. Cooper also devoted part of his business career as a co-trustee of his father's estate a trust including large mine and industrial holdings. Active in civic, fraternal and church activities at Baxter, Cooper was a member of the First Presbyterian church. He was affiliated with the Baxter Springs A. F. & A. M. lodge No. 71 of which he was a past master. He also was a member of RAM chapter No. 78, Galena Kansas Commandery 46 Knights Templar, the Mirsa Shrine, the Scottish Rite chapter at Fort Scott, Azutus shrine No. 5 of Joplin Missouri, Magnolia chapter of the Eastern Star of which he was worthy patron.