Well-known Fayette, Mo. educator Margie Fizer Cochran died Sunday, April 27, 2008 at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia. She was 79 years of age.

Funeral services for Margie Cochran will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30, at Linn Memorial United Methodist Church in Fayette with Rev. Eric Moore and Deacon Lee Schweighauser officiating. Burial will follow at Walnut Grove Cemetery in Boonville.

The family will receive friends from noon until the hour of service at the church.
Mrs. Cochran was born in Odessa, Mo., on June 11, 1928.  She was the daughter of Earl and Stella Daggs Fizer. A 1946 graduate of Boonville Public Schools, she later attended Central Methodist College and graduated Cum Laude from Washington University in St. Louis.

On Aug. 22, 1950, Margie Fizer was united in marriage to Mitchell O. Cochran of Boonville.  A couple truly devoted to each other, they taught in the public schools in several Missouri communities and ultimately came to make their home in Fayette where Mr. Cochran served as high school principal and Education professor at Central Methodist University. He preceded his wife in death on April 9, 1999.

Mrs. Cochran retired after some 35 years of teaching as a member of the faculty of Fayette Public Schools in 1991. Much admired by her students and by her peers, she was as active in the community as in her classroom. She was a member of Paul H. Linn Memorial United Methodist Church and was actively involved in the Howard County Retired Teachers Association, The Fayette Book Club, Delta Kappa Gamma, and the Red Hat Ladies. She had also served on the board of the Fayette Senior Center.

Along with her husband, Mrs Cochran was preceded in death by her parents.

Surviving are one son, Mitchell O. Cochran, Jr., and his wife, Francine, of Suffolk Va. and two daughters; Rebecca Huntsman and her husband, Dave, of Lake Ozark, Mo. and Mickey Cochran of Fayette. Also surviving are grandchildren Garrick and Zachary Vogt, Robyn and Chandler Cochran and Mitchell O. “Trey” Cochran, III. One step-grandson, Johnathan Klemens, also survives as does one great-grandson, Andrew Jack Dotson.  Other survivors include one sister, Dixie Young and her husband, Hugh, of Grandview, Mo. and one sister-in-law, Marilyn Cochran of Boonville.

Memorials are suggested to the Fayette Senior Center or a charity of the donor’s choice care of  Friemonth-Freese Funeral Service; 174 Hwy 5 & 240 N; Fayette, Mo. 65248.