Pearl J. Valentine

Pearl J. Valentine was born in Windsor, North Carolina to Levenia and Hosea Cooper. She was one of sixteen children. Pearl enjoyed community, school, family, and church gatherings while growing up in the country with her siblings, parent, and very special friends. Pearl was raised with God's foundation in the home and to be a hard worker in any role you had. Education was key to success and Pearl embodied that her entire life. 

Pearl was educated in the public school system in her hometown for primary and secondary education. Pearl kept some special high school friends in close contact all her life. She took pride in having her High School yearbook All these years.

Pearl was always active in meal planning for the family and became one of the main cooks on the household at age twelve. As she developed her own style and preferences she was well known as the pie lady as she would bless folks with apple and sweet potato as gifts for the holidays and special occasions. Pearl also made everyone's most favorite pot of greens with seasoned meat from "down home." Her daughters, the family, her church family, and their friends truly enjoyed the way Pearl made her chicken salad. Her daughters would often remind her she could make a great living from her cuisine. She chose to do it as a labor of love. Sourcing ingredients from her travels from Canada, the Caribbean, her home state and her very favorite Amish Country, Pennsylvania.

A few years before the completion of HS Pearl would come up to New York to work for families as a live in Nanny. Upon graduation of HS, Pearl was set to make a new life in the Big Apple. Soon after she became employed at Ma Bell. Which is better known today as Verizon. Pearl went up the ranks as a telephone operator to retire as a supervisor at the age of 52. 

Pearl was a devoted Christian and was baptized with the Holy Ghost as a teen back home. She testified that God delivered her from asthma miraculously after receiving the Spirit Of The Lord. Pearl served alongside her family at their home church, until Peace Mission Church Of Christ, Incorporated was opened in February 1063, where it stands today at 104-04 164th Street, South Jamaica, Queens NY. Pearl was one of the 13 adults that marched in with their 13 children that Great Day. 

One day coming from a job interview Pearl met a man named Arthur that would change her life forevermore on the LIRR. May of 1976. They came into a union of matrimony in a close family friends' home in VA quietly over that holiday weekend.  Pearl was the Matriarch of the Cooper family. She has traveled abroad to the Caribbean, all across the United States, Her favorite country is Canada, her two favorite states outside of her home state was Florida and Hawaii. Her favorite color was blue.

Pearl was preceded in death by her husband Arthur, several siblings, her two granddaughters and most recently her twin daughter Latishia Paret. 

Pearl is survived by her dear daughters: Yvette and Tanishia; her wonderful grandsons: Jeffery, Tyrell, Dakarri and Preston; her delightful granddaughter Daija; her dedicated son-in-law Pat and his lovely daughters; her brothers: Alton Cooper (Vashtie), Ronald Cooper; her sisters: Joyce Smith, Doris Hooks (Louis), Alice Alexander; godsons, bonus children and grands from the church and Springfield Gardens communities; the prayer band members, a numerous amount of close nieces, nephews, cousins, special neighbors, lifelong friends from Verizon and North Carolina, the extended Cooper Clan at large that will always mourn her death. 

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