Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Wednesday, February 7, 1973

Rupert Cooper

Funeral services for Rupert Cooper, 72, of 1017 Anthony, Bossier City, will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Bossier City by the Rev. John H. Bunch.

Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery.

Mr. Cooper died at 10:55 a.m. Tuesday in Bossier General Hospital after a long illness.

He was a native of Lucky and had been a Bossier City resident for 47 years. He had retired from Citgo after 42 years service and was a member of the Barksdale Baptist Church.

Survivors include his widow; three daughters, Martha Cooper of Bossier City, Barbara Westbrook of San Diego, Calif., and Thelma Nix of Ocean Springs, Miss.; two brothers, Royal Cooper and Wayland Cooper, both of Houston, Tex.; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.