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Associated Press - December 28, 2009 9:24 AM ET
ATLANTA (AP) - An Atlanta centenarian lauded by President Barack Obama in his election night speech last year will be remembered at funeral services Monday.
Ann Nixon Cooper died Dec. 21. She was 107.
Cooper gained public attention when Obama characterized her as an example of "the heartbreak and the hope" of the past century. He noted she was born at a time when women and blacks couldn't vote in Georgia and lived to cast her ballot for the country's first black president.
Cooper first registered to vote on Sept. 1, 1941, but didn't exercise her right for years.
She would have turned 108 on Jan. 9. Services are being held at Friendship Baptist Church, in downtown Atlanta.
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