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Obituaries
Friday, September 30, 2022
Tammy Lynn Cooper
Age: 62
City: Milton
Funeral Home
Cranston Family Funeral Home
Friday, September 30, 2022
Tammy Lynn Cooper
Tammy Lynn Cooper
Milton
Tammy Lynn Cooper, 62, of Milton, Iowa, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones on Saturday, September 24, 2022.
Tammy was born in Corydon, Iowa, on July 25,, 1960, to Garold and Marilyn (Thatcher) Warren. She was united in marriage to Gordon Oliver in October of 1975. Together they were blessed with five children Paul, Leanne, Traci, Dennis and Melonie. She later married Gary Cooper in November of 2004 and was blessed with three stepchildren, Gracie, Frances, and Gina.
For all of her adult life Tammy was a homemaker and her greatest joys in life were her children and especially her 13 grandchildren. Her number one summer chore was making sure the swimming pool was ready for all to swim in and working in her yard, keeping it beautiful. She was known by many names, Tammy, Mom, Wife, Daughter, but her greatest title was Mamma.
Tammy loved to have family meals when all of her children and grandchildren would cram into the house. There was always the smell of smoked meat and the sound of laughter coming from their home. Tammy’s sense of humor was one of a kind. She loved nothing more than to prank her children and grandchildren and they loved nothing more than to prank her back. Her children and grandchildren were the apple of her eye, but her time spent with her husband Gary was very special to her. Early in their marriage they loved to hunt and fish together. Tammy and Gary would often be seen mowing their property on their matching zero turn mowers. On the weekends they enjoyed traveling and trying out new restaurants, but most of all just spending time together.
Tammy was preceded in death by her father, Garold Warren, mothers-in-law, Francis Haltom and Evelyn Cooper, brothers-in-law, Fred Schmidt and Dustin Cooper, and the father of her children, Gordon Oliver.
Tammy is survived by her husband, Gary Cooper of Milton, IA, children, Paul (Katherine) Oliver of Tipton, IA, Leanne (Guy) Posielenzny of Arbor Vitae, WI, Traci (Chris) Adkins of Libertyville, IA, Dennis (Deanna) Oliver of Princeton, IL, Melonie (Alex) Eggers of Fairfield, IA, Gracie (Nathan) Graves of Huntington, WV, Frances (Casey) Hunley of London, KY, and Gina (Daniel) Coubert of Ashland, KY, father-in-Law, James E. Cooper, mother, Marilyn Warren, sisters, Kahla Schmidt and Laura Warren (Les Cook), grandchildren, Madyson (Thayne), Chloe, Olivia, Drake, Logan, Delilah, Hannah, Hunter, Burkleigh, Moria, Charlie, Dawson and Sebastian, many brothers- and sisters- in-law, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and all those she left behind who loved her.
A Celebration of Life will be held at Lacey State Park Lodge in Keosauqua, Iowa, on October 15, 2022, at 1 PM.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent in honor of her grandchildren to Leanne Posielenzny, PO Box 751, Woodruff, WI 54568.