Cooter - Memorial Stone in Munich suburb (Steele, Ethel: school, military)

[BGFiend]

Does anyone in the Cooter area have any idea why a memorial stone was erected after World War II to honor US Army Capt. Lawrence E. Cooper, Jr., a Vanderbilt Medical School graduate and son of Dr. Lawrence E. Cooper and Ethel Cooper? The memorial remained at an ammunition depot in the town of Hohenbrunn, Germany for about 60 years before it was moved to a local cemetery because the ammunition depot was closed and turned into an industrial park.

I should have said that Dr. Lawrence E. Cooper, Sr. and his wife, Ethel were Cooter residents and ran a medical practice, and that Capt. Lawrence E. Cooper Jr. grew up in Cooter.

[Nu2pomona]

Obituary, The Steele Enterprise, Steele Enterprise, Steele, Mo. Thursday, November 8, 1945; Memorial in Europe Honors Cooter Doctor: Capt. Lawrence Cooper Jr., who was accidently drowned at Kastenseeon, Germany, June 6, and the marker erected by the 262nd Ordinance Bn. to commemorate their beloved doctor. The picture on the right was sent to Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Cooper by the commanding officer of the company of which Capt. Cooper was a member after it had been erected in memory of the young doctor who had meant to much to both officers and enlisted men of the unit he served so faithfully.

The Steele Enterprise has an obituary dated Friday, April 8, 1949 which says a funeral service for Capt Lawrence E. Cooper, Jr., 27, were conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Cooter, Mo. Captain Cooper's body was returned from a United States Military Cemetery in Bavaria for reburial in the United States.

This comes from Mary Frances Funderbunk. To be put in touch with her, contact me, please.

[Dr. Stanslowski]

Originally Posted by BGFiend

Does anyone in the Cooter area have any idea why a memorial stone was erected after World War II to honor US Army Capt. Lawrence E. Cooper, Jr., a Vanderbilt Medical School graduate and son of Dr. Lawrence E. Cooper and Ethel Cooper? The memorial remained at an ammunition depot in the town of Hohenbrunn, Germany for about 60 years before it was moved to a local cemetery because the ammunition depot was closed and turned into an industrial park.

The memorial stone for Captain Dr. Cooper in Bavaria is located ( two month ago) at the comunity of Hohenbrunn in the south- east outskirts of Munich address Adalbert- Stifter - Street on
a prominent location.