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Cooper, Iva M.

Source 265 – Postcard: Nellie to Iva M.

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Author: Mrs. W.B. Bera
Title: Postcard to Mrs. Charles Thomas, Ellsworth MI
Date: 13 June 1917
Curator: Christine Fisher 
Detail: Postcard front – Her home in Sunfield, Michigan 

12 Ridge St., GR MI

Will drop you a card and give you our address as Eva said I failed to when I wrote after we moved. We have been wondering why you did not write. How are you all? I hope well. We like it real well here. – Nellie

Source 264 – Postcard: Mrs. W.B. Bera

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Author: Mrs. W.B. Bera
Title: Postcard to Iva M. Cooper, UBA Hospital Grand Rapids, MI
Date: 07 December 1908
Curator: Christine Fisher
Detail: Postcard front – Her home in Sunfield, Michigan

Kind friend,

? to my word.

This a picture of our home. Am feeling better every day. Will try my luck on some B. Cram some of these days. Mrs. W. B. Bera, 3rd Floor, 32

Here’s for success to the U.B.A. 

Source 263 – Postcard: J

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Author: “J”
Title: Postcard to Iva M. Cooper, UBA Hospital Grand Rapids, MI
Date: 05 March 1909
Curator: Christine Fisher
Detail: Postcard front – Sylvanite, Photo by Cooley

Sylvanite, N.M.
March 5, 1909

Dear Iva:

This picture was taken before I put my tent up, but it now stands about at the end of the arrow very near the center of the town. We are having most beautiful spring weather but everything is awfully quiet.

As ever – J

Letter just received

Source 262 – Postcard: [unknown] Stuart of Kalamazoo

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Author: [unknown] Stuart
Title: Postcard to Iva M. Cooper, 341 E. Main Street, Ionia, MI
Date: 09 January 1908
Curator: Christine Fisher
Detail: Postcard front – celery field

Dear friend,

Received your card and was glad to hear from you. It found us all well. Grandma is with us now and is improving slowly. She sends her love. – [unknown] Stuart, 413 (?) Street, Kalamazoo

Source 240 – Interment Records: Winegar Cemetery, Grand Rapids, MI

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Locality: Cemetery Headstones of Winegar Cemetery, Homrich Ave SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 (616) 878-9104
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  • Mary ? b 1828 Scotland; d October 1894 (Charles Thomas maternal grandmother)
  • David Irwin (Sr) b 1799 NY; d 03 March 1900 – age 101
  • Mary Irwin d. 19 October 1894 – age 66
  • George Smith Thomas (Sr) b 1827? NY; d 1915
  • Julia (Irwin) Thomas b 1837? MI; d 1912
  • Margaret Thomas b 19 July 1918; d. ? July 1986
  • Iva Mae Cooper Thomas b 1883 Lawrence, Van Buren Co., MI; d 09 April 1945
  • Charles R. Thomas b 1863 Byron Center, Kent Co, MI; d 24 May 1957
  • Alta A. Brown b 27 May 1888 Wyoming Twp, Kent Co., MI; d 03 April 1908

Source 239 – Obituary (2) – Iva M. Thomas

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Title: Obituaries for Iva M. Thomas
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Locality: Grand Rapids, MI
Curator: Christine Fisher
Detail: Grand Rapids Newspaper?

Iva M. Thomas Dies; Former UBA Nurse

Mrs. Iva May Thomas, 61, wife of Charles R. Thomas, died late Monday at her home, 878 Sixtieth St. SE. Born in Lawrence, she came here in 1908 and two years later was graduated from the nurses training school at the former UBA hospital.

Surviving besides her husband are two sons, Robert W. of Detroit and Herbert of Grand Rapids; three daughters, Mrs. Helen Hoorn, Miss Dorothy and Miss Margaret Thomas, all of Grand Rapids; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Viola Fry of Cadillac; a brother, Rev. E.E. Branch of Grand Rapids; a sister, Mrs. Amanda Lawton of Ellsworth and a granddaughter, Janice Hoorn, of Grand Rapids.

The body is at the Metcalf mortuary, where funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. Mr. Branch will officiate. Burial will be in Winegar Cemetery.