Robert Miller Cooley

1914 - 1992  (78 years)

• Name	Robert Miller Cooley  [1]
  Birth	20 Sep 1914	Otis, Washington Co, Colorado   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Bob
  Death	4 Nov 1992	Rawlins, Carbon Co, Wyoming   [3, 4, 5]
  Burial	7 Nov 1992	Cloverdale Memorial Park, Boise, Ada Co, Idaho   [4, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I19	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	18 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	Robert Berton Cooley,   b. 15 Oct 1875, McGregor, Clayton Co, Iowa d. 12 Dec 1962, Akron, Washington Co, Colorado (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Carrie Louella Miller,   b. 27 May 1883, Beaman, Grundy Co, Iowa d. 10 Aug 1973, Akron, Washington Co, Colorado (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	3 Jan 1903	Plainview, Pierce Co, Nebraska   [7, 9]
  	MARRIED At Pierce, Saturday afternoon by Judge Williams Bert Cooley and Miss Lou Miller. The contracting parties both reside northwest of Plainview and are will and favorably known by all. They will make their home with Mr. Cooley's parents for the present. Judge: J.A. Williams, Plainview, Nebraska presiding; Present: Herbert Merton Cooley and Alvina Miller. We extend congratulations. [7, 8]
  Family ID	F6	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eleanor Newcomb,   b. 30 Nov 1915, Melba, Canyon Co, Idaho d. 13 Jul 2008, Canon City, Fremont Co, Colorado (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	28 Jun 1937	Melba, Canyon Co, Idaho   [10]
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F12	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Dec 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Robert Miller Cooley was born 20 Sep 1914 in Otis, Washington County, Colorado to Robert Berton Cooley and Carrie Louella Miller. He attended Otis Grade School and Akron High School graduating in 1933. He entered the University of Colorado (CU) in Boulder beginning in the fall of 1933 and received his baccalaureate degree in June 1937 in journalism. He met Eleanor Newcomb at CU in 1935 and upon his graduation they were married 1 July 1937 in Melba, Idaho. Shortly after their marriage they returned to Colorado where he began work with the family-owned newspaper in Akron. They lived for one year in an apartment in his parent's home in Akron until mid 1938 whereupon they moved to a house on Railroad Avenue and present-day Date Street (one block east of state highway 63). Later they bought the Crutchfield house on present-day Custer Street directly west of his brother, Coyne Cooley. In 1943 he joined the war effort but after a brief stint in the United States Army, he was discharged for health reasons and, upon his return home he was requested to take the position of Chief of the Rationing Board in Greeley, Colorado. They rented out the Custer Street home to Nelson and Maude Sears (the parents of Coyne's wife, Margaret Sears Cooley) and moved to Greeley, Colo. After a short stay in Greeley they moved to Limon, Colo. to help his brother, Dale, publish the Limon Leader. They were there until June 1945 when they moved to Nampa, Idaho. In January 1946 they bought the Mountain Home News in Mountain Home, Idaho. Because of his worsening arthritic condition (earlier mis-diagnosed as lead poisoning from being around hot-lead Linotype machines) he elected to move to the drier climate of Arizona in 1953. They resided in Tempe in rented quarters from November 1953 to September 1954 while they had a new home built in west Phoenix on Mulberry Drive. During this time he taught journalism and English at Glendale School District while attending Arizona State University where he obtained a Masters Degree in Journalism. In July of 1963 the family moved to Reedley in the central valley of California where Robert became Director of Public Information at Reedley College. Just a year later in July of 1964 they moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where he accepted the position of Chairman of the Journalism Department and Director of Public Information at Northern Arizona University. He retired in 1976 and moved back to Idaho with his wife, Eleanor, where they settled in the relatively new Indian Lake subdivision just south of Boise. He was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, a society of professional journalists; Phi Delta Kappa, an education fraternity; Kappa Delta Pi, an honorary education fraternity; Kappa Sigma, a social fraternity. While in Mountain Home, Idaho, he was a member of Masonic Lodge #30, A.F. & A.M. Robert Miller died of a stroke 4 Nov 1992 in Rawlins Wyoming on his way to the funeral of his cousin Merton Beth Cooley (both raised as brothers) who had died on 3 Nov 1992 in Sterling Colorado. One's death close to the death of a sibling or close relative is called the bereavement effect. This effect had already occurred in this family in 1979-1980 when cousins-raised-as-brothers Clifford Coyne Cooley and Ronald Delos Cooley died just 37 days apart, Coyne 5 Dec 1979, Ron 11 Jan 1980.

  
  

• Sources

  [S398] Carrie Louella Miller interviewed by Daniel Berton Cooley 1968 , CL Miller Cooley Bible. [S341] U.S. Government, WWI Draft Registration Card, 1917-1918, Serial nr 642, Order nr 98, Registration date 16 Oct 1940 (Reliability: 3). [S303] Social Security Administration, U.S. Government, SSDI - master, SSN 521123093; last residence 83709, Boise, Ada, Idaho (Reliability: 3). [S354] ANR obit, (Akron, Washington Co, Colorado), 12 Nov 1992, p3 (Reliability: 3). [S165] Eleanor Newcomb Cooley, Eleanor, (1/4/98). [S566] Find A Grave website founder Jim Tipton, Findagrave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31775901/robert-miller-cooley (Reliability: 3). [S414] Pierce County, State of Nebraska, Nebraska Pierce Marriage, page 468 (Reliability: 3). [S415] Neb Plainview News, (Vol XI, No. 2, Friday, Jan 9, 1903). [S763] https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q213-S6TF : 28 November 2018 , Nebraska marriage index, Marriage, Pierce, Nebraska, US, Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln; FHL microfilm 2,021,735.; Berton Cooley and Luella Miller, 03 Jan 1903 (Reliability: 3). [S591] Marriage Cert gen, Idaho County Marriage Records, 1864-1967; Marriage License and Certificate No. 27, No. 11593, Instrument No. 178204 (Reliability: 3).