Margie Cooley

Mrs. Margie Browning Cooley, age 98, died Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021, at Van Ayer Healthcare and Rehab in Martin. Funeral service was held at 1 p.m. Monday, in the chapel of Replogle-Lawrence Funeral Home in Medina with Rev. Randy Cooper officiating. Burial followed in Oak Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery in the Edison Community of Gibson County. Mrs. Cooley was born Sept. 3, 1922, in Medina, to the late John Riley Browning and Linnie Allen Browning. She retired from Brown Shoe Company in Humboldt after 32 years and from Strasberg’s in Humboldt after being employed there 20 years. She and her husband made their home in Humboldt for many years. She was a member of the Fruitland Presbyterian Church. In 2011, she moved to Martin to be near her daughter and family. She is survived by her daughter, Jane Guthrie and husband Richard; stepdaughter, Nancy Wilson and family; grandchildren, Richie Guthrie and Meg Shelley (William); great-grandchildren, Kennedy Basham, Sam Shelley, Carter Guthrie, Brody Guthrie, and Maddox Guthrie. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband of 64 years, Bruce Cooley; stepdaughter, Julia Cooley; brother, Rochelle Browning; and sister, Pauline Maynard.