Former BJ editorial page editor David Cooper passed away Monday,
August 15 in La Jolla, California.
He came to Ol’ Blue Walls in 1997 and retired in 1999 when it was
still at 44 E. Exchange Street.
The New York City native and University of North Carolina graduate began
his newspaper career at the Grand Rapids Press in Michigan with a summer
internship. Dave’s grandfather, Edmund W. Booth, once was the editor and was
party of the family that founded Booth Newspapers.
Paul Poorman brought Dave to the BJ from the Detroit Free Press.
Dave’s widow is Joanne Hutchinson Cooper. Other survivors include their children,
David Cooper, Jr. of Piedmont, California; Charles Cooper of Canton; Melanie
St. Raymond Jennings of Wilton, Connecticut; and stepchildren Julia Hutchinson of
San Martin, California, and Jim Perry of La Jolla and Aspen, Colorado.
Article about Dave is on the Community front page in today’s BJ.
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