ALMA — Mrs. Anne Jacobson Cooper, 97, passed away Friday, April 17, 2025.
Mrs. Cooper was a daughter of the late Marie and Morris Jacobson and born in Waycross. She gradu ated from Waycross High School. She married Raymond Cooper, who was stationed at the Waycross Army Air Base during WWII, August 17, 1947. They lived in New York for four years, then returned to Waycross, living there for 45 years. They moved to Delray Beach, Fla., in 1996.
Mrs. Cooper was very involved in her children’s activities and in the community. She was a charter member and past President of Green Thumb Garden Club. Mrs. Cooper was also a past President of Holly Interests Club. From 1963 to 1965, she served as President of the Council of 11 Garden Clubs. She was also named Ware County Eighth Congressional District Georgia Homemaker in 1969.
Mrs. Cooper was a past president of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Waycross Hebrew Center. Her husband served as president for many years, and they worked together on all activities. Of special interest was the Brotherhood program during Brotherhood
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Week, with an open house at the synagogue. The “Morris Jacobson Brotherhood Award” was established in memory of Anne’s father and is presented to someone in the community who exemplifies “brotherly love and community service.”
Mrs. Cooper designed and created a 7-foot by 14foot stained glass window in the synagogue. Along with this, she composed a booklet and drew the designs to explain and describe each of the religious symbols she used in the window.
This material and a photograph of the window have been placed in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Jewish Historical Society and the American Jewish Archives, by various Rabbis who have seen it. They also sent it to UNICEF to be considered for a UNICEF greeting card. After being judged by international artists, her stained glass window was a finalist.
Mrs. Cooper always enjoyed sharing her home and hospitality. She liked to entertain, and for several years, wrote a newspaper column entitled “Entertaining for the Fun of It” for the Waycross Journal-Herald, in order to share entertaining ideas with others.
Mrs. Cooper was named Chairman protemp of “Friends of the Library,” then elected as the first president in 1981. She served as president for eight years. She and her husband served as Ware County co-chairpersons of the 1986-87 Education Funds Crusade for the American Cancer Society and established the Paul Azinger Pro-Am Cancer Benefit Golf Tournament.
Many awards were presented to the Coopers. In 1986, they were both honored with Kiwanis Club’s Miller Medals for Community Service.
When the Coopers moved to Florida, they were honored in many ways. A “Resolution of the Central Baptist Church” was presented to the Waycross City Commission on the naming of the street “Raymond and Anne Cooper Drive,” which runs by the Waycross Hebrew Center, leading to the Central Baptist Church. Green Thumb Garden Club planted a magnolia tree at the new Waycross-Ware County Public Library in Mrs. Cooper’s honor.
Her husband, Raymond, passed away in 2012 after 64 years of marriage. They had three children, Gloria (husband Mordechai) Wulkan, Dr. Marc (wife Cheryl) Cooper and Lonnie (wife Stacy) Cooper. They had seven grandchildren, Dr. Marissa (husband Shawn Warmstein) Cooper, Ross, Cory and Isabella Cooper, Brandie (husband Bill) Parker, Joshua (wife Alona) Lipinsky and Iain Lipinsky; two great granddaughters, Saa and Miriam Lipinsky; two great grandsons, Seth and Brett Parker.
A graveside service was held Tuesday, April 22 in Oakland Cemetery.
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