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Vernon J Coopman

Male 1921 - 2007  (85 years)


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  • Name Vernon J Coopman 
    Born 28 Oct 1921  Menasha, Winnebago Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 28 Jan 2007  Menasha, Winnebago Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried St Mary Cemetery, Menasha, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I88826  Little Chute Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Sep 2017 

    Father Joseph Coopman,   b. 18 Mar 1882, Bay Settlement, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Apr 1948  (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Maud Ada Sheprow,   b. 11 Nov 1885, Oshkosh, Winnebago Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Jan 1969, Neenah, Winnebago Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 28 Apr 1903  Oconto Falls, Oconto Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F197974  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Living 
    Children 
     1. Living
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F34769  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • January 30, 2007

      Coopman, Vernon J. Vernon J. Coopman, Menasha, age 85, passed away Sunday morning January 28, 2007, at Oakridge Gardens. He was born October 28, 1921, the son of the late Joseph and Maude (Sheprow) Coopman. Vernon was united in marriage to Lorraine Kern on January 12, 1946, and they just celebrated 61 years together. Vernone was a 1941 graduate of St. Mary's Menasha. He worked for Central Paper Company for 44 years and retired in 1986. He served his country during WWII as a member of the Army Signal Corps, attached to the 7th Air Force and was stationed in the Phillippines, and other South Pacific locations. He was honorably discharged as a Sergeant in 1945.

      Vernone was a member of the VFW and belonged to St. Mary's Catholic Church in Menasha. He enjoyed watching his grandchildren play hockey and soccer and following the Packers, Brewers and the Badgers.

      Surviving are his wife, Lorraine; his son, Gary (Bonnie); four grandchildren: Thomas (Jennifer) Coopman, Daniel (Julia) Coopman, Jeff Coopman, Sally Coopman, a great-grandchild, Sylvia Coopman. Vernon is also survived by his sisters: Evelyn Dietz, Lorraine (Robert) Patterson, Dorothy Loper; his sisters-in-law: Dorothy Coopman, Bernice Schmidt, Rita (Leonad) Vanden Wyngaard, Joyce (William) Frank, Donna (Cornelius) Van Hout, and a brother-in-law, Nick (Marilyn) Kern, and many nieces and nephews.

      He was preceded in death by his brothers and sisters-in-law: Oliver and Katherine, Richard and Evelyn, and Ben Coopman; sisters: Ada Coopman and Marion Scherz, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law: Dolores and Harley Reinholz, Joann and Jerry Jost, Robert Schmidt, Warren Loper and Donna Kern.

      The funeral service for Vernon will be Wednesday, January 31, 2007, at 11:30 a.m., at St. Mary Cath-olic Church, 528 Second Street, Men-asha, with Father Larry Canavera officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery. Friends and family will be received at the church on Wednesday morning, from 10:30 a.m. until the hour of the funeral mass. Military rites will be performed following the service at the church by American Legion William Verhagen Post #60 of Kimberly. A memorial is being established in his name.

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