[ OBITUARIES ]

Topeka Capital-Journal, The, Nov 20, 2002 by Capital-Journal

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Remmert Funeral Home in East Peoria, Ill. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery in Carterville. Visitation will be from 1:30 p.m. to service time Friday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to North Side Church of the Nazarene, 1203 N.E. Perry, Peoria, Ill., 61603; or to Heart of America Hospice, 3715 S.W. 29th St., Topeka, 66614.

Penwell-Gabel Highland Chapel is in charge of Topeka arrangements.

Lena Carper

Lena Mae Carper, 82, Topeka, died Sunday, Nov. 17, 2002, at her home.

Mrs. Carper did housework and worked in nursing homes for many years. She was a seamstress and a clinical child care worker at Children's Hospital at the Menninger Foundation from 1966 to 1983. She worked at the NYA Center in Topeka with the work program of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal for Women in 1939.

She was born Nov. 13, 1920, in Hiawatha, the daughter of George McKinley and Katherine Syville Grier. She attended school in Hiawatha and moved to Topeka in 1939. Mrs. Carper was one of the original plaintiff's of Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka.

Mrs. Carper attended the College Avenue Seventh Day Adventist Church until 1983. She was instrumental in forming the Church of God Seventh Day Adventist Church in Topeka.

She married Dorsey L. Carper on May 8, 1940. He preceded her in death.

Survivors include a daughter, Katherine L. Sawyer, Topeka; three brothers, Glenn Authur Grier, Norman Keith Grier and David Lee Grier, all of Hiawatha; two sisters, Virginia M. Green and Loretta L. Maddox, both of Topeka; four grandchildren; and seven great- grandchildren.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Bowser-Johnson Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery. Mrs. Carper will lie in state after 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral chapel.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Heart of America Hospice and sent in care of the funeral chapel.

Faye Cooper

Faye Lee Cooper, 66, Topeka, died Sunday, Nov. 17, 2002, at her home.

Mrs. Cooper worked for the city of Topeka for five years and then was employed by the state of Kansas. She retired from the Kansas Corporation Commission in December 1998 after 19 years of service.

She was born Aug. 3, 1936, in Honey Grove, Texas, the daughter of Jessie Brooks and Alvi Lee Rogers-Brooks. She attended school in Honey Grove and Ottawa, as well as the Seda Vocational School of Business.

Mrs. Cooper was a member of Emmanuel Temple Church of God in Christ.

Survivors include her mother, Alvi Lee Claiborne, Topeka; two sons, Ronnie Coleman Sr., Topeka, and Maurice Cooper Jr., Corpus Christi, Texas; six daughters, Kathleen Coleman, Linda Turnage, Claudia Payne, Alvi Selby, Marsha Cooper and Ladawn Chambers, all of Topeka; three foster sons, Dermaine Brown, James Gurden and Donnell Jackson, all of Topeka; two brothers, Tommy Brooks Sr. and Sterling Brooks, both of Topeka; three sisters, Claudette Mason, Topeka, and Nelli Mae Scott and Bonnie Brooks, both of Lubbock, Texas; 14 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.