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Oct. 20, 1930-June 27, 2011
Robert Clyde Cooper, born Oct. 20, 1930, to Anna Louise and Clyde Cooper of Rupert, Idaho, died June 27, 2011, in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the embrace of God and his family at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Patricia (Skinner), whom he married on May 31, 1953, in Twin Falls, Idaho. He leaves three children, Mary Ann (Kim Cafferty) and their children, Katie Alyson Fletcher and Sarah Elizabeth Gray; Susan Jane (Bob Farnsworth) and their children, Angela Cummings, Jason Ryan Farnsworth, Michelle Farnsworth, and Anthony Scott Farnsworth; Robert John (Tami) Cooper and their children, Brandon Lee, Carissa Elise, Camille Anne, together with nine loving great-grandchildren, as well as relatives and many friends who made his heart glad.
Arriving at the doorstep of the Great Depression, he thrived in adversity to graduate public school in Pocatello, Idaho, in the tide of the Greatest Generation in the Class of 1949. He attended Idaho State College and provided for the nurturing, discipline and material needs of his family through sales, engineering and construction projects spanning the United States and Canada. His engineering expertise in materials handling design reached the pinnacle of the specialty. His achievement in mechanical drawing is unique as a hand executed projection of aspect and the attainment of art in science. He imagined and executed innovative solutions in process engineering accomplished by a work ethic and persistence of character and integrity which obtained the highest level of excellence and regard in his community. This feat obtained the high water mark in the industrial capacity in the fields of materials handling in agriculture and mining. His passing represents the end of an era — and his challenge to the future of his beloved country.
As a youth he was a life-guard. He admired the mountains, river and lakes of the west as a technical climber, hiker, fisherman, hunter and kayaker. He was a 32nd degree Mason, Boy Scout leader and Rotarian. “He learned to golf at 40 — hated golf at 41. He had a lifelong love of Nature.”
In the autumn of 2010, he participated in the Shale Oil exploration and development seminar at the Colorado School of Mines as the fond desire of his 80th birthday anniversary. He attained to his Octogenarian season and never stopped learning. He never stopped sharing his knowledge and experience in geology, geography, history and humor.
He was a generous, meticulous and lifelong correspondent and inveterate traveler throughout the United States. He found friends in Peru, China, Russia, Australia, Antarctica, Poland and the British Isles to name a few of his rambles. He never did things half way and “shortcuts were not in his vocabulary.”
A memorial service will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday, July 1, at the Presbyterian Church of Twin Falls. Memorials are your choice or to the Rotary Foundation.
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