Howard Cooper Obituary

COOPER, Howard BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA - Howard Preston Cooper, 89, of Beaufort, died Monday, January 24, 2005, at his residence. The family will receive friends Thursday from 6 until 8 PM at Copeland Funeral Home. Funeral services will be Friday at 11:00 AM at The Baptist Church of Beaufort. Interment will be in Beaufort Memorial Gardens. Mr. Cooper was predeceased by his firstwife, Elsie Dendy Cooper. Mr. Cooper was born April 27, 1915, in Greenwood, South Carolina, a son of Walter Eugene Cooper and Ella Louise Hollingsworth Cooper. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from The University of South Carolina. He was Editor and Publisher of The Beaufort Gazettefrom 1946 until 1963 and was the recipient of the South Carolina Weekly Paper of the Year Award in 1960. He was formerly President of the Greenwood Junior Chamber of Commerce, past President of the Beaufort County Chamber of Commerce, member of the Board of the University of South Carolina Beaufort and was a founding director of the Bank of Beaufort. Surviving are: his wife, Elizabeth Eve Horne Cooper of Beaufort; one daughter, Karen Cooper-Haber of Columbia; a son, Eugene Brent Cooper of Beaufort; two brothers, James W.. Cooper of Greenwood, South Carolina and Rudolph Cooper of Beaufort; a sister, Vera Eugenia Mahon of Greenville, South Carolina; six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the University of South Carolina College of Journalism Scholarship Fund or to Friends of Caroline Hospice, 1110 13thStreet, Port Royal, South Carolina 29935 Copeland Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Visit our guestbook at www.charleston.net/deaths.