Geraldine L. Pyle, daughter of the late Lloyal Cooper and Dawsey McMillion Cooper was born on March 10, 1929 in rural Bernie, Missouri and departed this life on April 10, 2015 at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 86 years.

Mrs. Pyle was a member of the Bernie Church of Christ.  She retired from Elders Manufacturing in Dexter and was a resident of Dexter. 

On January 2, 1946 she was united in marriage to Charley “Pete” Pyle in Malden, Missouri.  Mr. Pyle preceded her in death on September 17, 2007.

Survivors include two sons, Junior Ray Pyle and Michael D. Pyle of Dexter; two daughters, Etta Jean Ross and Karen Forkum of Dexter; by four brothers, Travis Cooper of Bernie, Missouri, Billie Cooper of Dexter, Ardie Cooper of Junction City, Kansas, and Roger Cooper of Bernie; by four sisters, Darlene McGowen and Betty Thurston both of Bernie, Cora Coker of Republic, Missouri, and Janet Wood of Malden, Missouri; by thirteen grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren.

Besides her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by one brother, Rev. Don Cooper; one sister, Gloriaetta Beaird; and by one granddaughter, Michelle Bollinger.

Friends may call from 5:00 until 8:00 P.M. Monday April 13, 2015 at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

Funeral service will be conducted on Tuesday April 14, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter with Brother Stan Dauck and Rev. Floyd Pyle officiating. 

Interment will follow at the Chalk Bluff Cemetery in Dexter.