Obituary: Elmer P. Cooper

Elmer P. Cooper, 77, long-time Carbon County resident, passed away on May 29, 2014, at Deseret Health Care in Saratoga.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. June 11, 2014, at the Saratoga Cemetery Chapel. Services will be conducted by friend and fellow school mate, Teense Willford. He will be honored by his friends in the Saratoga Volunteer Fire Department. Interment with military honors will follow. Funeral arrangements are being handled by the Carbon County Funeral Home.

Elmer was born in Laramie on Nov. 10, 1936. He graduated in 1954 from the Platte Valley High School and served in the U.S. Arm...