COOLEY-DAVIS, Helen Winnie (Osborn) - b. November 8, 1921 - d. July 28, 2001

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Independence Reporter
Monday, July 30, 2001


HOWARD---Helen Winnie Cooley-Davis, 79, died Saturday at Via Christi St. Francis Medical Center in Wichita.

Private services will be held under the direction of the Zimmerman Funeral Home of Howard.

She was born Nov. 8, 1921, at Elk Falls to Charles and Ida Mae (Bennett) Osborn. She graduated from Elk Falls High School in 1939.

On July 29, 1941, she married Jack A. Cooley at Moline and they lived in Oklahoma, Arizona, Washington, Texas, Arkansas, and Kansas.  Mr. Cooley died in 1976.

She married Lester Davis in 1988.  The couple was divorced in 1989.

Mrs. Cooley-Davis is survived by three sons, Jerry Cooley, Elk Falls, Douglas Cooley of Pea Ridge, Ark., and Delwyn Cooley, Belle Plaine; one daughter, Brenda Burnett, Wichita, two brothers, Cecil Osborn of Garfield, Ark., and George Osborn, Collinsville, Okla; two sisters, Bessie Royse, Howard, and Barbara Sanders, Kirkland, Wash.: eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.