Eleanor Kay Cooper

Life-long OKC area resident, Eleanor Kay (Kaminski) Cooper passed away January 2, 2018 at Mercy Hospital. She was born October 5, 1921 in Choctaw OK, to Eleanor "Stevie" (Forsythe) Kaminski and Stanley Paul Kaminski. She had resided in in OKC, then Bethany OK since 1968, until April 2016 when she moved into an apartment at Dorset Place Memory Care. During the WWII years she was employed at Douglas Aircraft where she helped assemble military aircraft, helped sell War Bonds, and received one of the first Social Security cards on the first day they were issued. On August 1, 1945 - after the end of WWII - she married Bernard Cooper, who had just been released from service in the US Navy. She continued working as a bookkeeper and office manager for several local companies including Red Rock Petroleum, Brown & Sons, and retired from Red Cap Tag Agency. She was actively involved in Ridgecrest United Methodist, teaching, singing in the choir, serving in several church positions, and her favorite - providing flowers for the altar from her garden. She loved nature, her dogs and many cats, and gardening - especially roses. She was a past president of the Oklahoma Rose Society - and served a a judge for rose shows throughout Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana, the Oklahoma State Fair shows, and provided rose-related information to several mystery writers. She and Bernard also loved traveling and had visited most of the states, as well as European countries, and Australia, and New Zealand, always taking many photographs - some of which she submitted to the Daily Oklahoman for their contests. She is survived by daughter Glenda Lee of Richmond IN, sister Joann Onweller of Thornton CO, nephews Scott and Bill Walker and their families, nephew Charles Maulding and his daughters Alicia and Tara and their families, and the children of nephew Jeron Cooper - Christopher, Daphne, and Brandi and their families. She is preceded in death by her parents, son-in-law Thomas M Lee, nephew Jeron Cooper, and brother and sister-in-laws Elizabeth (Cooper) Maulding and Virginia and Green Cooper.