Marjorie R. Stroope, 84 of Caddo Mills, died Monday, at Autumn Leaves Nursing Home in Rockwall. Graveside services will be 10:00 AM, Thursday, December 5, 2013 at City Cemetery, Waxahachie, Texas under the direction of Coker-Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Gene Wisdom will officiate. Visitation will 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Wednesday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Stroope was born in Sterrett, Texas on January 2, 1929. She was the daughter of Everett Hightower and Ruth Stephenson Hightower. She and James R. Stroope married on June 5, 1948. Mrs. Stroope was a retired school teacher, teaching in Greenville for 24 years. She was a member of Beta Sigma Phi, a director at Hunt County Farm Bureau and a member of Wesley United Methodist Church.
Survivors include her sons, Ralph Stroope and wife, Janis, Jim Stroope and wife, Sandi and Larry Stroope and wife, Brandi; sisters, Louella Preston and Jean Beaver; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, James R. Stroope; brother, Dickie Hightower; and sister, Virginia Aday.
