Jo Koop

Jo Koop, 85, of Big Spring, formerly of Edna and Oakhurst, died on Tuesday, June 13, 2006, in a Big Spring hospital. An informal gathering to memorialize Jo will be held at 10:00 AM Saturday, June 17, 2006 at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel in Big Spring with her son-in-law, Dr. Johnny "Dickey" Stanley, officiating. Jo was born on November 12, 1920 in Latexo, Texas. She married William Heston Fitz and they had two daughters, Sunya and Cinda. She later married John Koop in Oakhurst.Jo moved to Big Spring in 1998 from Oakhurst. An outdoors person, she enjoyed gardening, fishing and hunting. She also enjoyed sewing, cooking and canning.She was a Baptist.Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Sunya Fitz of Seabrook and Cinda and Dr. Dickey Stanley of Big Spring, one grandson and his wife, Logan and Courtney Stanley of San Antonio, and one brother, Coy Jean Baldree of Houston. She was preceded in death by her parents; one granddaughter, Meagan Stanley and two brothers, Harold and Jim Ray Baldree.The family suggest memorials be made to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, Gift Processing Center, P.O. Box 96268, Washington, DC 20090-6268 or to the Make a Wish Foundation of West Texas, 3800 E. 42nd St., Suite 512, Odessa, Texas 79762. Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.com,