Caddo Parish Obits: Canon, Reb. Robert K. 2/10/2008
Date Submitted: 11 Feb 2008
Submitted by: Peggy Hale
Contact: peggyviv4@aol.com
Source: The Shreveport Times




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The Shreveport Times

The Reverend Canon Robert K. (Ken) Cooper

SHREVEPORT, LA- A Requiem Eucharist will be offered in thanksgiving for the 
life and ministry of the The Reverend Canon Robert K. (Ken) Cooper at 1:00 p.m. 
on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at St. Mark's Cathedral, Shreveport. 

The family will receive visitors from 5:00-7:00pm Monday, February 11 at Osborn 
Funeral Home, 3631 Southern Avenue in Shreveport and at the cathedral following 
the Tuesday Eucharist. 

Father Cooper passed away Friday evening in Austin, TX of natural causes. 

He is survived by his wife, Martha Annan Cooper of Shreveport; daughter Claire 
Rebouche and husband Darrell, also of Shreveport; daughter Ellen Cooper of Austin; 
grandchildren Christopher Rebouche, Madeleine Rebouche, and Hannah Cooper. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, Augustus Stinson Cooper and Edythe Maricle 
Cooper of Ft. Worth, TX. He and Martha were married on August 29, 1959. He was born 
July 14, 1936 and was educated in Ft. Worth public schools before graduating from 
Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He was Executive Vice President of First 
Federal Savings and Loan in Shreveport before dedicating his life to the priesthood. 

He attended the University of the South in Sewanee, TN and graduated from the 
Seminary of the South with a Master of Divinity degree. 

His ministry led him to the Church of the Epiphany in New Iberia, LA where he served 
as rector. He later became rector at St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Shreveport and 
at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Lafayette, LA. He also served as Dean of the 
Convocation of Acadiana and as Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of 
Western Louisiana. 

He was instrumental in the formation of the St. Luke's Episcopal Medical Ministry, 
which serves the Shreveport Convocation. 

Memorial offerings should be made to the St. Luke's Episcopal Medical Ministry, in 
care of St. Mark's Cathedral, 908 Rutherford St., Shreveport, LA, 71104.