SERVICES FOR JERE COOPER, JR.
Death of Representative's Son Sadden Dyersburg

Dyersburg, Tenn., Feb 5---Services for Jere Cooper, Jr., son of Tennessee's Ninth District representative were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The Rev. E. C. Cross officiated and burial was in Fairview Cemetery.

The 16-year-old boy died Sunday morning at Baird-Brewer General Hospital after an illness of only four hours. News of his sudden death injected a note of sadness into the life of this community as it spread rapidly through the congregations of the city's churches. The boys in the Sunday school class he attended wept openly when their teacher interrupted the lesson to advise them of his death.

A junior of Dyersburg High School, young Cooper was a member of the Beta Club, an honorary scholastic society. He was active in church affairs and was past president of the Youth Fellowship.

Young Cooper's mother died during his infancy, and he made his home with an aunt, Mrs. Royce Jones. After learning of the death of his only child, Representative Cooper boarded a plane at Washington and arrived here Sunday night. He was accompanied by Mrs. Mildred Somers of Washington, a sister of the late Mrs. Cooper.

He also leaves three uncles, Fowler Cooper of Memphis and Harry Rankley and Frank Rankley of Campbellsburg, Ky., and three other aunts, Mrs. Royce Jones, Mrs. Paul Bradshaw and Mrs. Norman Fuller, all of Dyersburg.