Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Earl Ray Cooley ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Earl Ray Cooley
LAST NAME: Cooley FIRST NAME: Earl MIDDLE NAME: Ray NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: WWI - Army
BORN: 19 Oct 1897 DIED: 26 Oct 1945 BURIED: 29 Oct 1945
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Maple Valley, Wisconsin
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
DRAFT REGISTRATION - Earl Ray Cooley, of Harrisburg, Linn Co., Oregon, age 20, b. Oct. 19, 1897, occupation student at Oregon Agri College in Corvallis, nearest relative mother, Daisy A. Cooley of Harrisburg, height - medium; build - medium; eyes - brown; hair - black.
MARRIAGE - to Mabel Elizabeth Marcus 8 Jul 1925, Marion Co., Oregon 
1930 OR CENSUS - Earl R. Cooley, age 32, married at age 27, occupation state director of agriculture ed, b. Wisconsin, is enumerated with wife Mabel E. Cooley, age 26, married at age 21, b. Oregon.
OBITUARY: 
Earl R. Cooley, at his residence, 2270 Center st., Oct. 26.  Survived by his wife, Mabel Cooley of Salem, a son, Earl Cooley, Jr., of Salem; daughter, Betty Adell Cooley, of Salem, father H. W. Cooley, of Albany, two sisters, Mrs. Harry Howe of Lebanon and Mrs. George Berry of Albany, four brothers, Warren K. Cooley, Dr. Monroe R. Cooley, and Marvel L. Cooley, all of Albany, and Lee W. Cooley, of Cottage Grove. Service will be held at the Clough-Barrick chapel Monday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. Rev. Chester Hamblin will officiate. Interment at IOOF cemetery.
Oregon Statesman 28 Oct 1945 5:1
INSCRIPTION: 
Earl R. Cooley 
Oregon 
Pvt US Army 
Oct. 19, 1897 - Oct. 26, 1945
SOURCES: 
LR 
LD 
OSBH DC (Marion County 1945) #6654 
Saucy Survey & Photographs
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (Ancestry.com)
Oregon Marriage Index, 1925-29 (Genealogical Forum of Oregon)
1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 52, sheet 6A)
OS 28 October 1945 5:1
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 924 SPACE: 1 SE S½ LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.207' LATITUDE: W 123° 03.006'
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