Extracted from The Lake Charles American Press (Lake Charles, LA)
Monday, May 9, 1966

WILLIAM COOLEY

DERIDDER -- Funeral services for William Napoleon Cooley, 72, will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Beauregard Funeral Home Chapel.

Burial will be in the Old Cyprus Cemetery.

Mr. Cooley died at 4:30 a.m. Monday in a DeRidder hospital. He was a veteran of World War I and a retired farmer.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ida Goins Cooley of DeRidder; two daughters, Mrs. Woodrow Foshee of Groves, Tex. and Mrs. H. E. Strange of DeRidder; three sons, W. Fred Cooley and Henry Cooley, both of DeRidder and T-Sgt. William E. Cooley of U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.; two brothers, B. S. Cooley and Jack Cooley, both of DeRidder; two sisters, Mrs. F. N. Keel and Mrs. Gib Keel, both of DeRidder; 10 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.