COOPER, JAMES RAY - Washington County, Louisiana | JAMES RAY COOPER - Louisiana Gravestone Photos

James Ray COOPER

McGehee Cemetery
Washington County,
Louisiana

James
March 17, 1918 - November 23, 2000

BOGALUSA — A memorial service for James "Ray" Cooper, and his wife, Bernice S. Cooper, will be held Friday, December 7, at the ESM United Methodist Church, 510 Avenue B, Bogalusa.

Visitation will be at 1 p.m. at the church, with the service starting at 2 p.m. The service will follow a private internment at the McGehee Cemetery in Bogalusa.

Cooper, then 82, died last year in Kennewick, Washington, where he had resided with his wife since 1990. His wife passed away in Richland, Washington, on November 1 of this year at the age of 89. He was born March 17, 1918, in Bogalusa, the son of Fletcher D. and Anna Burris Cooper. He graduated from Bogalusa High School. He began his career selling building materials, and then construction company management. He later moved into hospital management and administration. He served as business manager, assistant administrator, and administrator for several hospitals in Texas and Southern California. He also served several years as a consultant with a firm designing hospitals for cities throughout the U.S. Bernice "Bea" Cooper was born June 22, 1912, in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from high school in Kansas City, Kansas, and had a career as a dancer, including performing in Broadway shows in New York. Ray and Bernice met while they both worked for a construction company building Keesler Air Force base in Biloxi, Mississippi. They were married June 10, 1948. They are survived by their son James Jr., and his wife Jane, of Benton City, Washington; and by Ray's sisters Ruth Hosey of Bogalusa, and Elaine Walz of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Bernice
June 22, 1912 - November 1, 2001

Photo courtesy of Bonnie D

Contributed on 3/14/20 by billsully060
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Submitted: 3/14/20 • Approved: 3/14/20 • Last Updated: 3/17/20 • R254104-G254104-S3

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