Mickey Cooper

MILDRED S. “MICKEY” COOPER Mildred S. “Mickey” Cooper, 86, of 139 Smoky Park Highway, Asheville, died Tuesday, September 23, 2003, in an Asheville hospital. Mrs. Cooper was born in Jackson County and was a daughter of the late J.L. and Laura Ledford Sutton. She and her late husband Wayne M. Cooper, who died in 1988, owned and operated Monticello Mobile Home Park on Patton Avenue. She was an member of West Asheville Baptist Church where she sang in the choir. She was a member of the West Asheville Business Association. She is survived by her sister, Mabel Greene of Waynesville; two half-sisters, Ann Snyder and Betty Sutton of Dillsboro; two half-brothers, Winfred Sutton and Medford Sutton of Dillsboro; and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be at 2:00 pm Thursday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Rev. Ken Lewis and the Rev. Dr. James H. Johnson officiating. Burial will be at Crawford-Ray Memorial Gardens in Clyde. Pallbearers will be Chip Greene, Ricky Farnham, Jamie Parris, Mike Sutton, Bobby Buchanan and Tony Lyda. Her family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the service and request that memorials be made to West Asheville Baptist Church, 926 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806, or to one’s favorite charity.