Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) Claude Everette Cooper Jr., 85, a loving husband, father, grandfather and friend, passed away Tuesday, February 10, 2026.
Born November 16, 1940, in Fayetteville, NC, he was a son of the late Claude Everette Cooper Sr. and Martha Lee Martin Cooper.
He was a 1958 graduate of Sumter High School and enrolled in Clemson University in the Fall of…