Funeral services for Peggy Joe Cooper, age 79, of Shelbyville, TN will be held 10 a.m. August 2, 2022 from the chapel of Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Pastor Jimmy Gray officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Smyrna. Mrs. Cooper passed from this life Wednesday morning, July 27, 2022, surrounded by her family at NHC Oakwood.
Visitation with the family will be held 5-8 p.m. Monday evening, August 1st, at the funeral home.
A native of Rutherford County Peggy was daughter of the late Franklin Thomas Cooper and Willie Mae Sullins Cooper. Mrs. Cooper was a mainly a homemaker, and was also a talented seamstress. She enjoyed sewing for her friends and family, her community and for nursing homes. She was a member of Northfork Baptist Church.
Along with her parents she was preceded in death by her son, Franklin Earl Lynch; brothers, Franklin, Raymond and Ronnie Cooper; and sister, Ruth Carlton.
Survivors include: son, Joe (Carol) Wright; daughter, Emily (Steve) Brewer both of Shelbyville; grandchildren, Grayson Victoria Peek, Justin Lane Wright and Casey Leann Wright; and sisters, Billy Jean Lee of Smyrna and Bonnie Pearl Barrett of Woodbury.
Doak-Howell Funeral Home is serving the family.
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