Frances Ellen COOPER (2)

Frances Ellen COOPER. Lieutenant (Nursing Sister) RCAMC.

Born 7 August 1910 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to Belle Cooper, of Moose Jaw. Enlisted 14 March 1943, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Died suddenly in hospital, Friday 26 October 1945 aged 35.

At rest in Rosedale Cemetery, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

Extract from Moosejawtoday.com –

Located within the Rosedale Cemetery’s veterans’ section is the headstone of a nursing sister who died suddenly in Moose Jaw about two months after the Second World War ended.
Lt. Frances Ellen Cooper was born on Aug. 7, 1910, in The Friendly City and was the daughter of Belle Cooper. The nursing sister served overseas with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps before returning to Canada to continue her service here.
Cooper, 36, was already in the hospital when she died on Oct. 26, 1945, and a funeral service was held for her the next day. According to an article in the Moose Jaw Times-Herald, honorary Capt. A.C. Le Grew officiated at her service, while funeral company Center and Hanna handled the interment at Rosedale Cemetery.
“Nursing Sister Cooper served overseas with the R.C.A.M.C for three and a half years. She had been stationed here for two months,” the article added.
Cooper is one of hundreds of veterans buried in the Rosedale Cemetery. Her story is part of a collection that Moose Jaw’s Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 59 has created featuring nearly 500 soldiers, sailors, airmen and other military personnel from the area who fought and died in the First and Second world wars.

Photograph credited to Moosejawtoday.com