Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Thursday, August 2, 1962

JOEL I. COOLEY

DERIDDER (Spl.) -- Funeral services for Joel Ira Cooley, 58, of the Friendship Community, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, at the Friendship Baptist church, Rev. Frank Williamson, Rev. Riley Green and Rev. James H. Stephenson officiating.

Burial will be in the Friendship cemetery, under the direction of the Beauregard funeral home.

Mr. Cooley died at 6:20 p.m. Wednesday, at a DeRidder hospital.

Mr. Cooley was a lifelong resident of the Friendship Community and was a deacon in the Friendship Baptist church.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Curtis Cooley of DeRidder; one son, Ewell Cooley of DeRidder; one daughter, Mrs. Charles Stephenson of Leesville; one brother, Everette Cooley of DeRidder; three sisters, Mrs. Vernice Snelling and Mrs. Aubrey Singletary, both of Houston, Tex., and Mrs. Farley Green of DeRidder; and four grandchildren.