Ray Cooper

Funeral services for Ray Cooper who died in Malad Friday (13 Jan 1938) of pneumonia were held Sunday afternoon at two o’clock from the Joseph William Taylor chapel in Salt Lake. A military service was conducted with Veterans for the Foreign Wars, in charge. Dr. Alexander and Mr. Anderson, veterans of Foreign Wars, were the speakers. A violin solo, vocal duet and two vocal solos were other numbers on the program.

Ray Cooper, 48, for the past 17 hears has been an electrician with the D. & R. G. railroad company at Salt Lake City. He and his wife were visiting at Malad at the time of his fatal illness.

Cooper was the son of Mrs. Agrippa Cooper of Salt Lake City and the lat Agrippa Cooper of Oxford and Lava Hot Springs, and was a cousin of Fontaine Cooper, state traffic officer slain near Twin Falls by Douglas Van Vlack, two years ago.

The widow, Marie Peck Cooper, is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peck of Malad.

The people from Malad who attended the funeral were, Mrs. Ray Cooper, her mother-in-law, Mrs. Cooper of Salt Lake, her father, Charles Peck, Mr. and Mrs. Lovell Peck, Paul Peck, Arthur Peck and two daughters of Lava, Ardis Peck of Pocatello, B. B. Jones, Ed Vaughn, Guy Benson, Tom Dives. A number of relatives from Brigham joined them, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Jones and Mrs. Mary King who were enroute remained at Ogden on account of an accident while enroute.