Vernell Cooper

September 21, 1927 - January 7, 2014

Funeral Services for Nell S. Cooper 86, a retired Town Clerk of Ferriday, LA. will be 11:30 am Tuesday January 07, 2014 at Comer Funeral Home Chapel in Ferriday, LA. with Rev. Richard Clellum officiating . Interment will follow to Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery Natchez, MS. under the direction of Comer Funeral Home Ferriday, LA. Ms. Cooper was born September 21, 1927 and passed from this life peacefully January 02, 2014 in Beaumont, Texas surrounded by her family . Ms. Cooper attended Waterproof High School and was the Valedictorian of her class when she graduated in 1945. She was formally Ferriday Town Clerk in the 6o's several times and was a member of the Love Circle at Ridgecrest Baptist Church which she enjoyed and she loved flowers and loved to be involved with gardening outside. She will surely be missed by all that knew her. She is preceded in death by her parents and her husband Raymond Kenneth Cooper. Survivors include her children Barbara Cooper Taylor of Asheville, North Carolina, Paula Cooper Townsend and husband John Richard of Beaumont, Texas and Raymond Kenneth Cooper II and friend Beverly Frederick of Louisville, Kentucky; grandchildren Lauren Townsend Shuffield and husband Christopher of Keller, Texas; Sarah Townsend Heroman and husband Robert of Baton Rouge, LA.; Emmaline Cooper and Charlotte Cooper of Vidalia, LA.; great-grandchildren Avery Shuffield and Claire Elizabeth Heroman. Friends may call for visitation after 9am until service time at 11:30am at Comer Funeral Home Chapel in Ferriday, LA. Tuesday Jaunuary 07, 2014. Online guestbook at www.comerfh.com