Hazel was born on May 15, 1922 in Guthrie, Oklahoma to parents George W. and Pearl Geneva Steppick. When she was in high school, the family moved to Tarrant County, Texas.
After graduating high school, she went to work. She was a real-life "Rosie The Riveter", like many other American women who worked in a factory during World War II, producing munitions and war supplies. Women like Hazel sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military. Conditions were sometimes harsh and pay was not always equal—the average man working in a wartime plant was paid $54.65 per week, while women were paid about $31.50. Nonetheless, women quickly responded to Rosie the Riveter, who convinced them that they had a patriotic duty to enter the workforce.
At age 28, she married Howard Archie Cooper. Hazel and Howard met at Josephine's Boarding House and married on November 27, 1950. To this union was born a son, Kenneth Wayne Cooper, their only child.
Obituary:
Hazel Cooper, 85, passed away Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.
Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday at Stephenville Seventh-day Adventist Church. Interment: Iredell Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Rosser Funeral Home.
Survivors: Son, Ken and wife, Marcia, of Hico.
After graduating high school, she went to work. She was a real-life "Rosie The Riveter", like many other American women who worked in a factory during World War II, producing munitions and war supplies. Women like Hazel sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military. Conditions were sometimes harsh and pay was not always equal—the average man working in a wartime plant was paid $54.65 per week, while women were paid about $31.50. Nonetheless, women quickly responded to Rosie the Riveter, who convinced them that they had a patriotic duty to enter the workforce.
At age 28, she married Howard Archie Cooper. Hazel and Howard met at Josephine's Boarding House and married on November 27, 1950. To this union was born a son, Kenneth Wayne Cooper, their only child.
Obituary:
Hazel Cooper, 85, passed away Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.
Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday at Stephenville Seventh-day Adventist Church. Interment: Iredell Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Rosser Funeral Home.
Survivors: Son, Ken and wife, Marcia, of Hico.
Hazel was born on May 15, 1922 in Guthrie, Oklahoma to parents George W. and Pearl Geneva Steppick. When she was in high school, the family moved to Tarrant County, Texas.
After graduating high school, she went to work. She was a real-life "Rosie The Riveter", like many other American women who worked in a factory during World War II, producing munitions and war supplies. Women like Hazel sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military. Conditions were sometimes harsh and pay was not always equal—the average man working in a wartime plant was paid $54.65 per week, while women were paid about $31.50. Nonetheless, women quickly responded to Rosie the Riveter, who convinced them that they had a patriotic duty to enter the workforce.
At age 28, she married Howard Archie Cooper. Hazel and Howard met at Josephine's Boarding House and married on November 27, 1950. To this union was born a son, Kenneth Wayne Cooper, their only child.
Obituary:
Hazel Cooper, 85, passed away Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.
Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday at Stephenville Seventh-day Adventist Church. Interment: Iredell Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Rosser Funeral Home.
Survivors: Son, Ken and wife, Marcia, of Hico.
After graduating high school, she went to work. She was a real-life "Rosie The Riveter", like many other American women who worked in a factory during World War II, producing munitions and war supplies. Women like Hazel sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military. Conditions were sometimes harsh and pay was not always equal—the average man working in a wartime plant was paid $54.65 per week, while women were paid about $31.50. Nonetheless, women quickly responded to Rosie the Riveter, who convinced them that they had a patriotic duty to enter the workforce.
At age 28, she married Howard Archie Cooper. Hazel and Howard met at Josephine's Boarding House and married on November 27, 1950. To this union was born a son, Kenneth Wayne Cooper, their only child.
Obituary:
Hazel Cooper, 85, passed away Monday, Nov. 26, 2007.
Funeral: 1 p.m. Saturday at Stephenville Seventh-day Adventist Church. Interment: Iredell Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Rosser Funeral Home.
Survivors: Son, Ken and wife, Marcia, of Hico.
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