CAVE CITY – Nina Mae Mathes Cooney, 78, of Ash Flat died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2002, at a Batesville hospital.
Born July 27, 1923, at Mountain View, she was the daughter of Herman and Liza Edding Mathes. She was a retired certified nurse’s aide for the Crest Park Nursing Home in Forrest City and a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Evening Shade.
Survivors include a son, Tom Cooney of Poughkeepsie; two daughters, Mary Louise Babitsch of Ash Flat and Dorothy Mae Peterson of Evening Shade; two brothers, Melvin Mathes of Cherokee Village and Norman Mathes of West Memphis; two sisters, Elizabeth Watts of Wynne and Flo Luker of Cherokee Village; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Eugene Harris Cooney; an infant son; a daughter, Florence Bell Cooney; two brothers, Claude Mathes and Marvin Mathes; and a grandson, Thomas Eugene Cooney.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Calvary Baptist Church in Evening Shade with Carl Higgs officiating. Burial will follow in Cooney Cemetery near Williford with arrangements by Qualls Funeral Home of Cave City.
Pallbearers will be Calvin Dennis, Raymond Stroud, Terry Cooney, Stanley Cooney, Barry Cooney, Don Snearly and Mike Cooney.
Honorary pallbearers will be her grandchildren.
Born July 27, 1923, at Mountain View, she was the daughter of Herman and Liza Edding Mathes. She was a retired certified nurse’s aide for the Crest Park Nursing Home in Forrest City and a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Evening Shade.
Survivors include a son, Tom Cooney of Poughkeepsie; two daughters, Mary Louise Babitsch of Ash Flat and Dorothy Mae Peterson of Evening Shade; two brothers, Melvin Mathes of Cherokee Village and Norman Mathes of West Memphis; two sisters, Elizabeth Watts of Wynne and Flo Luker of Cherokee Village; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Eugene Harris Cooney; an infant son; a daughter, Florence Bell Cooney; two brothers, Claude Mathes and Marvin Mathes; and a grandson, Thomas Eugene Cooney.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Calvary Baptist Church in Evening Shade with Carl Higgs officiating. Burial will follow in Cooney Cemetery near Williford with arrangements by Qualls Funeral Home of Cave City.
Pallbearers will be Calvin Dennis, Raymond Stroud, Terry Cooney, Stanley Cooney, Barry Cooney, Don Snearly and Mike Cooney.
Honorary pallbearers will be her grandchildren.
CAVE CITY – Nina Mae Mathes Cooney, 78, of Ash Flat died Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2002, at a Batesville hospital.
Born July 27, 1923, at Mountain View, she was the daughter of Herman and Liza Edding Mathes. She was a retired certified nurse’s aide for the Crest Park Nursing Home in Forrest City and a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Evening Shade.
Survivors include a son, Tom Cooney of Poughkeepsie; two daughters, Mary Louise Babitsch of Ash Flat and Dorothy Mae Peterson of Evening Shade; two brothers, Melvin Mathes of Cherokee Village and Norman Mathes of West Memphis; two sisters, Elizabeth Watts of Wynne and Flo Luker of Cherokee Village; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Eugene Harris Cooney; an infant son; a daughter, Florence Bell Cooney; two brothers, Claude Mathes and Marvin Mathes; and a grandson, Thomas Eugene Cooney.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Calvary Baptist Church in Evening Shade with Carl Higgs officiating. Burial will follow in Cooney Cemetery near Williford with arrangements by Qualls Funeral Home of Cave City.
Pallbearers will be Calvin Dennis, Raymond Stroud, Terry Cooney, Stanley Cooney, Barry Cooney, Don Snearly and Mike Cooney.
Honorary pallbearers will be her grandchildren.
Born July 27, 1923, at Mountain View, she was the daughter of Herman and Liza Edding Mathes. She was a retired certified nurse’s aide for the Crest Park Nursing Home in Forrest City and a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Evening Shade.
Survivors include a son, Tom Cooney of Poughkeepsie; two daughters, Mary Louise Babitsch of Ash Flat and Dorothy Mae Peterson of Evening Shade; two brothers, Melvin Mathes of Cherokee Village and Norman Mathes of West Memphis; two sisters, Elizabeth Watts of Wynne and Flo Luker of Cherokee Village; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Eugene Harris Cooney; an infant son; a daughter, Florence Bell Cooney; two brothers, Claude Mathes and Marvin Mathes; and a grandson, Thomas Eugene Cooney.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Calvary Baptist Church in Evening Shade with Carl Higgs officiating. Burial will follow in Cooney Cemetery near Williford with arrangements by Qualls Funeral Home of Cave City.
Pallbearers will be Calvin Dennis, Raymond Stroud, Terry Cooney, Stanley Cooney, Barry Cooney, Don Snearly and Mike Cooney.
Honorary pallbearers will be her grandchildren.
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