General Notes

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Sybil says she used to ride the streetcar to visit Marjorie Allison and
her family.  She had to transfer at the old ball park in order to get
there, and then she would stay with them for two or three days at a time.
She remembers a party that Marjorie had when Marjorie had first
started dating Carlyle Hight, and that when Carlyle tried unsuccessfully
to get an old car started, the group all pushed it downhill to get it
going.  She says they had a lot of fun in those days.
Sybil's vision and hearing today (April 1992) are not very good,
especially her hearing.  It is easier for her to hear people on the phone
than in person because she has an amplifier on her phone.
Sybil attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, Texas.  She left
school before she graduated and went to work at Graham's Grocery in East
Dallas.  She worked there for many years before it closed.  It was while
she was working there that she met and married Loyd Cooper.  After
Graham's closed, she worked for Gulf Fish and Oyster, which was on
Pacific Ave. in Dallas, for several years.
Sybil was raised in East Grand Baptist Church, and after she and Loyd
moved to Whitney, Texas, they joined First Baptist Church there.  She is
still active in that church.
When she and Loyd married, they went with her mother, and an uncle
and two aunts of Loyd's to Durant, Oklahoma.  They could not afford a
church wedding in 1930, so they went to Durant.  Loyd did not have a car,
so his uncle volunteered to drive them all there for the wedding.  On the
way back they stopped at Denison for lunch, and the uncle said, "I'll buy
your lunch for you now, but then you're on your own!"  Sybil and Loyd
were married for nearly 55 years before he died.  They had no children.
Sources:  Sybil Elaine (Allison) Cooper, Charles O. Allison, Jr. (brother)