Age 80, a daughter of the late William and Katie Myers Sayers.
She was a charter member of the Christ United Methodist Church and enjoyed many Bible study groups and the church crafts groups.
She was preceded in death by her husband James Cooper, Sr. on December 1, 1993; also 6 brothers, Harry, George, Lester and William Sayers and Eddie and Jimmy Sayers in infancy; 3 sisters, Anna Mae Shrum, June Cooper and Leota Hulings.
Survivors include a daughter, Sue Carroll and her husband Paul of North East; a son James Cooper, Jr. and his fiancee Patty Whipple of Erie; 2 brothers, Everett Sayers and his wife Mabel of Mumford, N.Y. and Russell Sayers and his wife Shirley of Summerville, Pa.; 2 sisters, Mabel Fingado and her husband David of Mechanicsville and Shirley Evans and her husband Steven of Gillette; 8 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren, 2 great great grandchildren, many cousins, nieces and nephews, and a close life long friend Phyllis Stahlman of Erie.
Burial will be in Erie Co. Memorial Gardens.
(From Find-A-Grave)
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH81-R33 : accessed 18 May 2017), Myrtle M Sayers in household of William W Sayers, Redbank, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 27, sheet 16A, line 46, family 330, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2017; FHL microfilm 2,341,751.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQHZ-254 : accessed 17 May 2017), Myrtle M Sayers in household of William W Sayers, Monroe Township, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 16-23, sheet 14A, line 7, family 258, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3468.
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