Extracted from The Bryan-College Station Eagle (Bryan, TX)
Mack Irvin Cooner
Services for Mack Irvin Cooner, 84, of College Station are set for 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Callaway-Jones Chapel in Bryan.
The Rev. John Boyle of the Wellborn Baptist Church will officiate. Burial will be in the College Station Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Mr. Cooner died Saturday in St. Joseph Regional Health Center.
He was born in College Station and was a lifelong resident of Brazos County. He graduated from A&M Consolidated High School in 1937 and owned and operated a dairy for 29 years and raised cattle for many years. He retired in 1984 from the Texas A&M University Physical Plant as a water well operator. He was a charter member of the Wellborn Special Utility District, was a member of the Adam Royder Lodge No. 778 A.F.&A.M. and the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter No. 222. He was a member of the Wellborn Baptist Church since 1943, where he served as deacon and past chairman of the deacon body, served as Sunday school superintendent, served on numerous church committees and was a member of the men's adult Sunday school class.
He was preceded in death by a son, Harold Cooner.
Survivors include his wife, Lurleen Crenshaw Cooner of College Station; a son and daughter-in-law, Kenneth and Karen Cooner of Destin, Fla.; a daughter-in-law, Katie Cooner of Austin; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Bill and Diane Cooner of Willis, Texas, and William P. and Anna Cooner of Huntsville; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Lillie Schlinke of Taylor, Texas, and Ruth and Paul Napper of San Antonio; three brothers-in-law, Horace Barron of Taylor, Roy Hagler of College Station and Clifton Crenshaw of Mansfield, Texas; a sister-in-law, Louise Bullock of Bryan; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
Memorials may be made to the Wellborn Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 10, Wellborn, Texas 77881.
Monday, April 1, 2002
Jan. 19, 1918 -- March 30, 2002