Janelle Cooper Has Passed

[Kirk Freeman]

Janelle Cooper, aka The Countess, the wife of Jeff D. Cooper for 64 years has passed.

She was the balance to his gruffness/bluntness.

She will be missed.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

On her 99th birthday:

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Faked Wedding Announcement (do after the ceremony as Jeff Cooper was rushed through Officer Basic and sent to the Pacific after Pearl Harbor [Jeff Cooper was in a movie in NYC during the attack and had no idea what had transpired until the train ride back to training in PA]), at the time their wedding was against USMC regs [later changed]).

Prior to elopement in CA (Stanford)

 

[hammerd13]

So glad I was able to meet her in 2016 while training at Gunsite. Wonderful lady for sure, and will be dearly missed. Thanks for the update Kirk.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Her husband, gun culture icon, Jeff Cooper, aboard the USS Pennsylvania where he served during WWII

(Jeff Cooper center)

 

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Janelle's "pin up" portrait sent to Jeff during WWII

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Janelle doing some small bore work during Jeff's assignment in Virginia:

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Janelle was quite the athlete and was very competitive:

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Staff Officers' Party, Virginia, Janelle and Major Cooper:

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Jeff Cooper working for Christians In Action (primarily Thailand)

 

[Kirk Freeman]

With her children in one of Jeff's sports cars:

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Leatherslap, Big Bear, CA, see if you can spot the Marine:

Janelle keeping score at Big Bear

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Janelle (on left) dancing after a match at Big Bear (middle, dancing with his back turned is gun culture icon Ray Chapman; man in white shirt on the right is none other than Eldon Carl!):

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Janelle with Jeff during his send off party for his kayaking trip through Mexico, which he would later write about:

 

[Kirk Freeman]

American Pistol Institute, 1976

 

[Kirk Freeman]

The Sconce at Gunsite in Arizona, Janelle's home until her death

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Her grandkids

 

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Jane Ellen Marks, the year she met Jeff Cooper in high school, 1936

Jeff Cooper, senior in high school

 

[Kirk Freeman]

From Facebook:

One of my favorite comments we have received so far: "A great and fine Lady has left us, and we are diminished. Looking at the good side, I'm sure God is happy - because now she can intervene when Col. Cooper argues with Him!"

 

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