This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cooper Phal Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yl.2ADE/2342 Message Board Post: Rosa was the dau of John & Rowena (Lair) Cooper --------------- clipping from unidentified newspaper - 1924 MRS. PAHL, 52, PASSES AWAY NATIVE AND LIFE-LONG RESIDENT OF COUNTY ANSWERS SUMMONS. Muscatine, IA, Feb. 8 - Mrs. Henry Pahl, aged 52 years, a native and lifelong resident of this county died at 2 o'clock this morning in her home, a mile south of Blue Grass after a log illness. Mrs. Pahl who was formerly Miss Rose Cooper was born Sept. 14, 1871 in Muscatine Co. and married in Aug. 1888 to Henry Pahl. The widower and eight daughters survive. The surviving children are Mrs. Ed Fix of Andalusia; Mrs. Gus Blank, Walcott; Mrs. Hugo Schroeder, Walcott; Mrs. Gus Schroeder, Blue Grass; Mrs. Carl Peterson, Davenport and the Misses Florence, Velma, and Opal at home. Three brothers, V.A. Cooper of Davenport, C.C. and J.P. Cooper of Blue Grass and four sisters, Agnes of Philadelphia; Mrs. Belle Bohnsack of Stockton; Mrs. Maurice Stigers of Davenport and Mrs. Viola Eis of Montpelier, also survive. Funeral services will be held at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the home and at 1:30 o'clock in the Presbyterian church.