On Wednesday, August 12th, 2020 – from her bed at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – our Mother, Sister, and Friend Deborah (Debbie) Brown-Booker, suffered congestive heart failure. She was surrounded by her surviving children and a fine medical care team as she joined her ancestors in peace, grace, and honor at the age of sixty-one.
Born April 3rd, 1959, in Branson, Missouri, Deborah was the youngest daughter of Merley Venton and Mamie Ethel Brown. A farmer, certified nurse assistant (CNA), and vocal artist with a strong passion for family, cooking, ancestry, education, equality, and music, she traveled across land and sea, spending her adult years tirelessly laboring to provide comfort, security, and love to her children and others. She gave her all in everything she did, rarely asking for anything in return.
Deborah was a truly irrepressible, boisterous, and consummate banterer who possessed an unmitigated enthusiasm for life. Even in times of strife, her strength and spirit were unbreakable. Her genuine, infectious laughter and smile warmed the hearts of anyone near. In her view, there were no strangers around her; merely people she had not yet spoken to, or connected with.
Deborah was preceded in death by her youngest daughter, Nechola A. King of Bethany, Oklahoma. She is survived by two brothers, four sisters; three children: Carol M. Kimmelman of Bethany, Oklahoma, Clarence W. Cooper, II of Houston, Texas, and Thomas E. King, II of Bethany, Oklahoma; and twelve grandchildren. Her indelible traits live on in her descendants who will continue to add richness and beauty to the world around them. The memories of our lives with her, her love, and her guidance will remain ever vibrant and fresh in our minds and hearts.
(Obituary written and contributed by Deborah's son, Clarence Cooper, II.)
Born April 3rd, 1959, in Branson, Missouri, Deborah was the youngest daughter of Merley Venton and Mamie Ethel Brown. A farmer, certified nurse assistant (CNA), and vocal artist with a strong passion for family, cooking, ancestry, education, equality, and music, she traveled across land and sea, spending her adult years tirelessly laboring to provide comfort, security, and love to her children and others. She gave her all in everything she did, rarely asking for anything in return.
Deborah was a truly irrepressible, boisterous, and consummate banterer who possessed an unmitigated enthusiasm for life. Even in times of strife, her strength and spirit were unbreakable. Her genuine, infectious laughter and smile warmed the hearts of anyone near. In her view, there were no strangers around her; merely people she had not yet spoken to, or connected with.
Deborah was preceded in death by her youngest daughter, Nechola A. King of Bethany, Oklahoma. She is survived by two brothers, four sisters; three children: Carol M. Kimmelman of Bethany, Oklahoma, Clarence W. Cooper, II of Houston, Texas, and Thomas E. King, II of Bethany, Oklahoma; and twelve grandchildren. Her indelible traits live on in her descendants who will continue to add richness and beauty to the world around them. The memories of our lives with her, her love, and her guidance will remain ever vibrant and fresh in our minds and hearts.
(Obituary written and contributed by Deborah's son, Clarence Cooper, II.)
On Wednesday, August 12th, 2020 – from her bed at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – our Mother, Sister, and Friend Deborah (Debbie) Brown-Booker, suffered congestive heart failure. She was surrounded by her surviving children and a fine medical care team as she joined her ancestors in peace, grace, and honor at the age of sixty-one.
Born April 3rd, 1959, in Branson, Missouri, Deborah was the youngest daughter of Merley Venton and Mamie Ethel Brown. A farmer, certified nurse assistant (CNA), and vocal artist with a strong passion for family, cooking, ancestry, education, equality, and music, she traveled across land and sea, spending her adult years tirelessly laboring to provide comfort, security, and love to her children and others. She gave her all in everything she did, rarely asking for anything in return.
Deborah was a truly irrepressible, boisterous, and consummate banterer who possessed an unmitigated enthusiasm for life. Even in times of strife, her strength and spirit were unbreakable. Her genuine, infectious laughter and smile warmed the hearts of anyone near. In her view, there were no strangers around her; merely people she had not yet spoken to, or connected with.
Deborah was preceded in death by her youngest daughter, Nechola A. King of Bethany, Oklahoma. She is survived by two brothers, four sisters; three children: Carol M. Kimmelman of Bethany, Oklahoma, Clarence W. Cooper, II of Houston, Texas, and Thomas E. King, II of Bethany, Oklahoma; and twelve grandchildren. Her indelible traits live on in her descendants who will continue to add richness and beauty to the world around them. The memories of our lives with her, her love, and her guidance will remain ever vibrant and fresh in our minds and hearts.
(Obituary written and contributed by Deborah's son, Clarence Cooper, II.)
Born April 3rd, 1959, in Branson, Missouri, Deborah was the youngest daughter of Merley Venton and Mamie Ethel Brown. A farmer, certified nurse assistant (CNA), and vocal artist with a strong passion for family, cooking, ancestry, education, equality, and music, she traveled across land and sea, spending her adult years tirelessly laboring to provide comfort, security, and love to her children and others. She gave her all in everything she did, rarely asking for anything in return.
Deborah was a truly irrepressible, boisterous, and consummate banterer who possessed an unmitigated enthusiasm for life. Even in times of strife, her strength and spirit were unbreakable. Her genuine, infectious laughter and smile warmed the hearts of anyone near. In her view, there were no strangers around her; merely people she had not yet spoken to, or connected with.
Deborah was preceded in death by her youngest daughter, Nechola A. King of Bethany, Oklahoma. She is survived by two brothers, four sisters; three children: Carol M. Kimmelman of Bethany, Oklahoma, Clarence W. Cooper, II of Houston, Texas, and Thomas E. King, II of Bethany, Oklahoma; and twelve grandchildren. Her indelible traits live on in her descendants who will continue to add richness and beauty to the world around them. The memories of our lives with her, her love, and her guidance will remain ever vibrant and fresh in our minds and hearts.
(Obituary written and contributed by Deborah's son, Clarence Cooper, II.)
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