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Submitted: 11/16/16 • Approved: 11/16/16 • Last Updated: 4/13/18 • R800526-G800525-S3
Russell
May 26, 1919
Jan. 27, 2001 Las Vegas, Nevada
Spouses:
Pearl Evelyn Taylor Bradford (1919 - 1993)
Irma Dean Morehouse Cohee (1926 - 1998)
Irma
Dec. 8, 1926
Sep. 11, 1998 Las Vegas, Nevada
Parents:
Virgil Victor Morehouse (1901 - 1959)
Edna Marie Cox Morehouse (1904 - 2007)
Las Vegas Sun (Las Vegas, Nevada), Monday, January 29, 2001
Russell LeRoy Cohee - Russell LeRoy Cohee, 81, of Las Vegas died Saturday in a local hospital. He was born May 26, 1919, in Coyle, Okla. A resident for 26 years, he was an operating engineer, a World War II Navy veteran, a member of the American Legion and Teamsters Local 112.
He is survived by three sons, Robert LeRoy Cohee of Midway, Ark., and Fred R. Cohee and John F. Cohee, both of Happy Jack, Ariz.; and 11 grandchildren.
Visitation is scheduled one hour prior to 10 a.m. services Wednesday in Davis Paradise Valley Funeral Home, 6200 S. Eastern Ave. Burial will be in Missouri.
Irma Dean (Morehouse) Cohee, 71, of Las Vegas, formerly of Hopkins, Mo., died Friday, Sept. 11, 1998, at a Las Vegas health-care center.
Born Dec. 8, 1926, in Hopkins, Mrs. Cohee moved to Las Vegas eight years ago. She retired as a personnel director for the Air Force after 20 years of service. She was a graduate of a Los Angeles high school.
Mrs. Cohee was preceded in death by two sons, Richard and Robert Thomas; her father, Virgil Morehouse; and a brother, Earl E. Morehouse.
Surviving: her husband, Russell Cohee, of the home; a son, Dr. James N. Thomas, Finley, Ohio; her mother, Edna Morehouse, Hopkins; three brothers, Jacob W. Morehouse, Carson City, Nev., Albert Morehouse, Palmdale, Calif., and Carl Morehouse, Hopkins; four grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
Services were held on Sept. 21, 1998, at Swanson-Price Chapel, Hopkins, Mo.
Burial: Hopkins Cemetery, Hopkins, Mo.
Source: St. Joseph MO News-Press, Sept. 17, 1998, Page B2.
Contributed on 11/16/16
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