Rochelle Cooper fundraiser is set for Monday

A fundraiser event for local woman Rochelle Cooper, 46, who suffered a stroke in November will be held Monday.

Cooper will be having open-heart surgery this month, at Benefis Medical Center-South in Great Falls, due to the stroke.

Juanita Hilton, a friend of Cooper, organized this fundraiser and said that this will be an all-day event at Domino’s Pizza of Havre, 501 1st St.

Hilton said that she hopes a lot of money will be raised.

“It’s extremely difficult,” she said. “It touched me more than anything when I found out she had a stroke and now she has to have open-heart.”

Hilton added that this fundraiser will apply to all carry-out and delivery orders and that 20 percent of the sales will go toward Cooper’s surgery fund.

“You don’t have to mention (the fundraiser) either,” she said. “Whatever the sales are that day — it’s 20 percent.”

Rochelle’s mother, Mary Ann Cooper, said she admires her daughter’s bravery through all of this.

“She’s a single mother,” she said. “She needs all the help she can get.”

Rochelle said she thinks this fundraiser is a “good idea” and that she is stressed out.

For more information on Cooper’s fundraiser, call Domino’s Pizza of Havre at 262-9300.