Emma V. Cooper Harrison

Emma was born to Bessie Celeste Pennock and Joseph James Cooper on November 23, 1919 and grew up in Kremlin, OK. She was very athletic and played on the high school girls’ baseball team. She developed a love for sports that carried through her entire life. Emma also had a fascination with trains and loved to wave at the Kremlin conductor every day. One morning she and her sisters did not go to the tracks and the train crashed at the site they always stood to wave. That was the first day she knew that God had a plan for her life.

Emma received Christ as her Savior when she was a teenager and spent her life faithfully serving Him. She loved Chapel Hill United Methodist Church and was known to her friends and family as a kind and gentle woman who loved raising her children and encouraging and helping others. She was also a fantastic cook and enjoyed sewing and crocheting gifts for all of her friends and family.

When she was nearly 23 years old, Emma married Wilson Strasbaugh. They had three children and enjoyed many years of marriage before Wilson passed away. A few years later, Emma found love again and married Earl Harrison. Over the last 32 years, Emma and Earl enjoyed spending their retirement years traveling all over the world - often taking their grandchildren or enjoying making memories with each other.

Emma loved her family and is survived by many who loved her dearly - her husband Earl Harrison of OKC, OK, one sister Babe Yake of Merritt Island, FL, and three children (Floyd and Linda Strasbaugh of Tampa, FL; Reba and Bob Rodgers of OKC, OK; and Rick and Debbie Strasbaugh of Norman, OK). She is also survived by five grandchildren and their spouses, 12 great grand-children and their spouses and nine great-great grandchildren.

Services will be on Monday, June 18 at 10 a.m. at Memorial Park Funeral Home in Oklahoma City. Interment will be in Shawnee, Oklahoma.