Obituary of William Frierson Cooper

Services for retired Army Maj. William Frierson Cooper, 91, of Greenbrae, Calif, member of an early Tennessee family, will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at National Cemetery.
The Rev. Pickens Johnson, associate paster of McDendree United Methodist Church and chaplain of American Legion Post 5, will officate. Finley Dorris and Charlton Funeral Home is in charge.
Maj. Cooper died Sept 27 in a Ross, Calif., hospital. Services were held at By View Chapel in Berkeley, Calif., and the body was cremated.
Maj. Cooper was born in 1880 in Maury County, a son of Col. Duncan Brown Cooper and Mrs. Mary Polk Jones Cooper. He moved to Nashville as a child and lived at Riverwood, the historic white-columned home in East Nashville where his sister Mrs. Lucius E. Burch, still lives.
Maj. Cooper served as a lieutenant in the infantry during The Philippines insurrection in 1898 and in World War I was a major in the 283rd Tennessee Infantry Division.
He lived for several years in Hawaii and then in California.
He was a memeber of several veterans organizations, and the Order of the Cincinnati.
Survivors, in addition to his sister, include his wife, Mrs. Anita L. Cooper, Greenbrae; a brother, Duncan Brown Cooper, Chicago; and several nieces and nephews.