Born Marjorie Alexandra Lovering in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she was the daughter of Ontario-born parents Henry Langston Lovering and Annie Jane Boselly.[4] Her family moved to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1907.[1]
Cooper taught school in McCord from 1919 to 1925, when she married Ed Cooper. She was president of the Regina YWCA from 1941 to 1943 and president of the Regina Council of Women from 1946 to 1948. In 1945, she was named to the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board and, in 1951, to the Saskatchewan Public Service Commission. After the death of her first husband,[1] she married Wilfred Hunt in 1967.[3] She died in Regina at the age of 82.[1]