Frances Cooper Lavender, 91, of 506 Saco Street, widow of James Milton Lavender, died Monday, April 26, 2010 at Self Regional Medical Center. Born in Greenville County, she was a daughter of the late Fritz and Emma Balcombe Cooper. She was retired from Greenwood Mills, where she was a member of the Quarter Century Club. She was a member of South Greenwood Pentecostal Holiness Church, where she taught the Frances Lavender Class for 52 years. She was the recipient of the Upper SC Conference Sunday School Teacher of the Year in 2000 and 2001 and the 1995 recipient of the Amethyst Award for Outstanding Christian Leadership. In addition to her husband of 49 years, she was also preceded in death by sisters, Allie B. Long and Azilee Cooper and brothers, Coke, John, Rueben, Otto, Estee, Rinza and Junior Cooper. Surviving are her daughter, Judy Morrison, of Lenoir, NC; two sons, Johnnie Lavender of Easley and Michael Lavender of the home; a sister, Vivian Bigham of Greenville; two grandchildren; four step grandchildren; seven great grandchildren and 21 nieces and nephews.