Tare, the tenth child born to Alice and Remana went to school at Pakaraka. She was bilingual and told stories of how children who could only speak Maori at school would be thrashed.
The Cooper family lived in Whangaroa, then Okaihau, Avondale-Auckland and then Pukekohe where Jack managed a grocery shop. Eventually they moved back to Whangaroa where Jack worked in his father’s general store.
Tare had a daughter Shirley raised by Alice.
CHILD OF TARE
- Shirley Lemon.
Tare then married Jack Cooper, a Gallipoli veteran and together they had six children.
CHILDREN OF TARE & JACK COOPER:
- Pauline
- Fred
- Josie
- Natalie
- John
- Kerry
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