Deborah Ann Cooper, loving wife, friend, daughter, and mother of Muskogee, Oklahoma, passed away on Tuesday, September 20, at the family's home. Deborah, in the presence and comfort of her loving family, responded to the voice she first heard as a youth of Bastrop, Louisiana.

Deborah was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in late June. Facing her future with her husband, children, and grandchildren in her view, Deborah demanded a fight. She spent the last two and a half months battling this implacable disease, with prayer, love, patience, and chemotherapy. Deborah enjoyed long nights out with family, playing cards, bingo, music, cooking huge meals, cooking was one of her many love languages. She embraced her children and grandchildren, along with her nieces and nephews' children. However, complications of this disease weakened her body, but the mother, wife, and grandmother still had fought until her Father called her name. Victory is God's. In His glory, God took her up.

Deborah was born in Monroe, Louisiana, on September 6, 1962. She was the daughter of John Samuel Jackson and Lillie Mae (Faulkner-White) who both preceded her in death.

Deborah attended Carter G. Woodson Hisch School in Tullahassee, Oklahoma, where she later obtained her GED. Deborah met and married Leslie Willie Cooper, Jr., of Fort Gibson. To this union, Sonya K. Cooper of Monroe, Louisiana, and Leslie Willie Cooper III of Muskogee, Oklahoma, were born. Deborah fulfilled her life taking care of family, working as a provider, being a long-time employee with IOA, and walking in faith as a founding member of Evangelist Temple Baptist church, later joining Divine Love Christian Fellowship under the watchful eyes of Doctor Bishop  Michael A. Webber, Sr., where she remained until her Father's call.

Deborah leaves a legacy filled with love with her husband, Willie Cooper; daughter, Sonya Cooper; son, Leslie Cooper; grandson, Timothy Memphis Moore (Tim); bonus son, Charman Brooks; granddaughters, Micaela Jelks, Tierra Cooper, SkyAngel Anderson, all of Muskogee, OK; bonus grandchildren, Kross Dixon, Kiya Glover, Zane Gentry and Milaye Jones; siblings, Rose Thompson (Robert), Margarite Colquitt, Sharon Jackson, Lizzie Jackson, Patricia McHenry, James McHenry (Lucy), Hazel Jackson, the late Aunt Blackgal, William Peter McHenry, and Mable Jackson; and best friend, Pamela Houston.

The Hour of Remembrance for Mrs. Cooper will commence on Saturday, October 1, 2022 at the Eleventh Hour at Divine Love Christian Fellowship in Muskogee.

You may visit her as she rest in sweet slumber on Friday, September 30, 2022 from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM in The People's Chapel of Keith D. Biglow Funeral Directors, Inc.,-Muskogee.

The Christian Committal will immediately follow the services in the Booker T. Washington Cemetery in Muskogee.