Son of Marvin James Cooley and Elizabeth Louise Dornseif.
Husband of Agnes Rueger.
COOLEY, EX-CONSTABLE OF FOREST LAKE, DIES
Arthur R. Cooley, a former Forest Lake Township constable who once owned the Willow Point supper club in Forest Lake, died Sunday at his St. Paul home of congestive heart failure and emphysema. He was 63.
Cooley was born in St. Paul and grew up in the Midway district. He was a World War II veteran who worked for 20 years at Swift and Co. meat packing plant in So. St. Paul. He developed a bar, restaurant and boating complex on Forest Lake known as Willow Point and ran it from 1958 to 1977. He was constable in Forest Lake Township from 1962 to 1976.
He was a unsuccessful candidate for the Washington County board of commissioners in 1976, said one of his daughters, Jacque Schlaeger of Forest Lake.
Cooley also founded the Forest Lake Improvement Association, dedicated to cleaning up the lake.
He did a lot of community groundwork," Schlaeger said. "If somebody needed a helping hand, thats were his energies went."
Beside Schlaeger, Cooley is survived by his wife, Agnes; another daughter Patricia Ramey, also of Forest Lake; one brother, Fred, of Afton; five sisters, Florence Dahedl, Ruth Richter and Louise Ford, all of St. Paul, Charlotte Sadowski of Forest Lake and Lucille Olson of Roseville, and six grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 am Wednesday at the Mueller-Bies Funeral Home East Chapel, 650 N. Dale St., with burial at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Visition will be from 4 pm to 9 pm Tuesday at the funeral home.
Husband of Agnes Rueger.
COOLEY, EX-CONSTABLE OF FOREST LAKE, DIES
Arthur R. Cooley, a former Forest Lake Township constable who once owned the Willow Point supper club in Forest Lake, died Sunday at his St. Paul home of congestive heart failure and emphysema. He was 63.
Cooley was born in St. Paul and grew up in the Midway district. He was a World War II veteran who worked for 20 years at Swift and Co. meat packing plant in So. St. Paul. He developed a bar, restaurant and boating complex on Forest Lake known as Willow Point and ran it from 1958 to 1977. He was constable in Forest Lake Township from 1962 to 1976.
He was a unsuccessful candidate for the Washington County board of commissioners in 1976, said one of his daughters, Jacque Schlaeger of Forest Lake.
Cooley also founded the Forest Lake Improvement Association, dedicated to cleaning up the lake.
He did a lot of community groundwork," Schlaeger said. "If somebody needed a helping hand, thats were his energies went."
Beside Schlaeger, Cooley is survived by his wife, Agnes; another daughter Patricia Ramey, also of Forest Lake; one brother, Fred, of Afton; five sisters, Florence Dahedl, Ruth Richter and Louise Ford, all of St. Paul, Charlotte Sadowski of Forest Lake and Lucille Olson of Roseville, and six grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 am Wednesday at the Mueller-Bies Funeral Home East Chapel, 650 N. Dale St., with burial at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Visition will be from 4 pm to 9 pm Tuesday at the funeral home.
Son of Marvin James Cooley and Elizabeth Louise Dornseif.
Husband of Agnes Rueger.
COOLEY, EX-CONSTABLE OF FOREST LAKE, DIES
Arthur R. Cooley, a former Forest Lake Township constable who once owned the Willow Point supper club in Forest Lake, died Sunday at his St. Paul home of congestive heart failure and emphysema. He was 63.
Cooley was born in St. Paul and grew up in the Midway district. He was a World War II veteran who worked for 20 years at Swift and Co. meat packing plant in So. St. Paul. He developed a bar, restaurant and boating complex on Forest Lake known as Willow Point and ran it from 1958 to 1977. He was constable in Forest Lake Township from 1962 to 1976.
He was a unsuccessful candidate for the Washington County board of commissioners in 1976, said one of his daughters, Jacque Schlaeger of Forest Lake.
Cooley also founded the Forest Lake Improvement Association, dedicated to cleaning up the lake.
He did a lot of community groundwork," Schlaeger said. "If somebody needed a helping hand, thats were his energies went."
Beside Schlaeger, Cooley is survived by his wife, Agnes; another daughter Patricia Ramey, also of Forest Lake; one brother, Fred, of Afton; five sisters, Florence Dahedl, Ruth Richter and Louise Ford, all of St. Paul, Charlotte Sadowski of Forest Lake and Lucille Olson of Roseville, and six grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 am Wednesday at the Mueller-Bies Funeral Home East Chapel, 650 N. Dale St., with burial at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Visition will be from 4 pm to 9 pm Tuesday at the funeral home.
Husband of Agnes Rueger.
COOLEY, EX-CONSTABLE OF FOREST LAKE, DIES
Arthur R. Cooley, a former Forest Lake Township constable who once owned the Willow Point supper club in Forest Lake, died Sunday at his St. Paul home of congestive heart failure and emphysema. He was 63.
Cooley was born in St. Paul and grew up in the Midway district. He was a World War II veteran who worked for 20 years at Swift and Co. meat packing plant in So. St. Paul. He developed a bar, restaurant and boating complex on Forest Lake known as Willow Point and ran it from 1958 to 1977. He was constable in Forest Lake Township from 1962 to 1976.
He was a unsuccessful candidate for the Washington County board of commissioners in 1976, said one of his daughters, Jacque Schlaeger of Forest Lake.
Cooley also founded the Forest Lake Improvement Association, dedicated to cleaning up the lake.
He did a lot of community groundwork," Schlaeger said. "If somebody needed a helping hand, thats were his energies went."
Beside Schlaeger, Cooley is survived by his wife, Agnes; another daughter Patricia Ramey, also of Forest Lake; one brother, Fred, of Afton; five sisters, Florence Dahedl, Ruth Richter and Louise Ford, all of St. Paul, Charlotte Sadowski of Forest Lake and Lucille Olson of Roseville, and six grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 am Wednesday at the Mueller-Bies Funeral Home East Chapel, 650 N. Dale St., with burial at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. Visition will be from 4 pm to 9 pm Tuesday at the funeral home.
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