Florence Jeanette "Cookie" Cosper

Our dear Mother, Grandmother, Daughter and Sister, passed away Friday, November 24, 2006. Cookie was born on April 11, 1943, in Long Beach, California to Carl Malcom and Evelyn Salmon Sims. She was the youngest of four daughters.

On June 22, 1962, she married the love of her life, "Lee" Marvin LeRoy Cosper Jr. The couple was later sealed in the Los Angeles LDS Temple. They were the proud parents of two children. Cookie loved her children and found great joy and love in her grandchildren. She always spoke of how proud she was of them and all their accomplishments.

Cookie served in the Relief Society and Cub Scouts, but found her greatest joy serving as a Primary teacher. Once you had Cookie as a teacher, you were her kid for life. She was able to touch many more lives through her amazing talent of crochet. She also enjoyed embroidery and cake decorating and blessed her family and friends with her talents.

Cookie spent many years working in the accounting field. She loved her work and enjoyed the many friendships she made.

Cookie is preceded in death by her husband, her father, and a sister. She is survived by her children: Marvin Cosper III; Sheila (Jack) Hoffman of Newton; 3 Grandchildren: Tiffany (Nick) Tenney of Springville, UT; Cody Hoffman and Stacy Hoffman of Newton, UT; 1 Great Grandchild: McKenzie Tenney; her mother, Evelyn Sims of Victorville, CA; and two sisters: Evelyn (Jim) Matson of Norwalk, CA; and Caroline (Kelly) Walters of Victorville, CA.

Cookie, thank you for touching our lives! We love and miss you!

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, December 1, 2006 at the Newton 1st Ward Chapel, 90 South 100 West. Friends and family may call Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at Nelson Funeral Home, 85 South Main, Smithfield and Friday morning at the church from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to services. Interment will be in the Newton City Cemetery. Condolences may be extended to the family online at Nelson Funeral Home.