Cornelia Moore Cooper Borders
Funeral services for Cornelia Moore Cooper Borders of Warner Robins were held Wednesday, November 5, 2008, at the First United Methodist Church of Warner Robins. Interment was in Resthaven Cemetery, Washington. She died November 2 in Macon.
Mrs. Borders was a native of Wilkes County and was the daughter of Austin Henry Moore and Nannie Quin Moore of Rayle. She attended public schools in Wilkes County and graduated from Anderson College in South Carolina. She majored in Home Economics at Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville where she also studied voice. Following her graduation from Anderson College, she became chairman of its Home Economics Department. During World War II she married Morris Turner Cooper and they lived in Warner Robins. They were married 29 years before his death. She was employed by the Houston County Board of Education and taught in the Warner Robins schools for the next three decades. In 1976, she married Andrew C. Borders. She was a member of the First United Methodist Ch Curch of Warner Robins.
Survivors include her husband, Andrew C. Borders of Warner Robins; a son, Robert M. Cooper, Bonaire; a grandson, Rob Cooper, Warner Robins; great-granddaughter, Josephine Eliza Cooper, Warner Robins; a brother, Louis Quin Moore, Florida; and a stepson, A. Christopher Borders, Woodstock.
Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church, 205 N. Davis Drive, Warner Robins, GA 31093.
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