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Paid Notice: Deaths BUCHANAN, JEAN COOPER
BUCHANAN--Jean Cooper, 67, retired music teacher. Memorial Monday, April 3, 11a.m. St. Paul's Church, 113 Engle St., Englewood, NJ. No flowers. Gifts Jean Buchanan Fund, c/o A & F LaGuardia HS, Box 231485, Ansonia Station, New York, NY 10023.
Michael C. Cooper, Convicted in Tax Scam, Dies a Prisoner at 66
Seeing an opportunity to profit off widespread resentment over the tax system, he ensnared 50,000 Americans who sought to dodge the I.R.S.
Bert Cooper, Boxer Who Knocked Down Holyfield, Dies at 53
Cooper fought many of the top boxers of his day but was better known for his losses than for his victories. He also fought a serious drug problem.
We May Be Able to Get Kevin Cooper Off Death Row
California’s governor may permit a DNA test pointing to Cooper’s innocence.
California Today: Should the Case of the Death-Row Inmate Kevin Cooper Be Re-examined?
Monday: Pressure mounts on Gov. Jerry Brown, another rebuke to President Trump’s immigration policies and Steph Curry is on fire.
Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Patron of Black Artists, Dies at 70
Also a civil rights activist and educator, she championed African and African-American art, building a collection and then rebuilding it after a fire.
Leon Cooper, Who Carried on a Battle for Tarawa, Dies at 98
A veteran of the fight to take a Pacific atoll in World War II, he fought for the return of Marines’ remains and to restore a beach as “hallowed ground.”
Robert J. Cooper, 39, Creator of Popular Elderflower Liqueur, Dies
Mr. Cooper’s 2007 concoction, St-Germain, was so embraced by the cocktail crowd that it became known as “bartender’s ketchup.”
Henry S. F. Cooper Jr., Space Reporter With Literary Lineage, Dies at 82
Mr. Cooper, a descendant of James Fenimore Cooper, was an author, a writer for The New Yorker and the bulletin editor for the Century Association.
Jocelyn Cooper Dies at 86; Helped Pave Way for First Black Congresswoman
Ms. Cooper and her husband, Andrew Cooper, sued in the early 1960s to challenge racially gerrymandered congressional district lines, which were redrawn under court order.
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His tenor anchored generational hits like “Joy to the World” and “One” by one of pop music’s commercial powerhouses of the early 1970s.
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He seemed destined for a glittering career, working with the Fugees and solo, and then landed in prison. After his sentence was commuted, he clawed his way back.
Woodie King Jr., a Driving Force in Black Theater, Dies at 88
His New Federal Theater in New York provided a rare stage for Black playwrights and emerging actors, among them Denzel Washington, Phylicia Rashad and Chadwick Boseman.
Billy Bass Nelson, Original Bassist for Funkadelic, Dies at 75
George Clinton, while working as a barber, recruited him. Mr. Nelson went on to name the group and, with his bandmates, to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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