A resident of Chatham, Mary Ellen Cooper passed away surrounded by her loving family on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at the Chatham-Kent Hospice in her 88th year.<\/p>\n
Born in Chatham on September 4, 1930, Mary Ellen was the daughter of the late Albert & Bella (nee Goudreau) Knight.<\/p>\n
Wife of the late Donald Ernest Cooper (2006).<\/p>\n
Remembered always by her son, Brian (Sandy Young) of Calgary. Predeceased by her sons, Paul, Mark & Scott.<\/p>\n
Grandmother of Amy, Dan, & Lauren Cooper.<\/p>\n
Predeceased by her siblings, Robert and Francis Knight.<\/p>\n
Missed by many nieces, nephews and friends.<\/p>\n
Mary Ellen worked with Fund With Friends for many years, was a volunteer for the Women’s Shelter, an active member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 642, and the Merlin Friendship Club. She was a longtime member of the Port Glasgow Trailer Park for over 30 years and will be very missed by her many longtime friends. Mary Ellen enjoyed playing Bingo, traveling & painting.<\/p>\n
Friends to be received on Sunday, November 18, 2018 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm & 7:00 – 9:00 pm at McKinlay Funeral Home, 459 St. Clair Street, Chatham. A Funeral Service will take place on Monday at 11:00 am at the Funeral Home. Burial to follow in Maple Leaf Cemetery.<\/p>\n
Donations may be made to the Chatham-Kent Hospice Foundation or to the Chatham-Kent Women’s Shelter.<\/p>\n
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A resident of Chatham, Mary Ellen Cooper passed away surrounded by her loving family on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at the Chatham-Kent Hospice in her 88th year.","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 21:23:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/obituaries\/2018\/11\/cooper-mary-ellen-aged-88-chatham\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}