COOPER, Kevin Jay
Source: Covington Friend Thursday, August 18, 1977
A Covington man is dead and two others remain hospitalized as the result of an early Saturday morning accident about four miles south of Attica.
Kevin Jay Cooper, 20, died at 4:40 p.m. Saturday at Burnham City Hospital, Champaign, Ill., about twelve hours after the auto in which he was a passenger rammed into a tree on Fountain County Road 70. He suffered multiple head and internal injuries.
Curt Miller, 19, of Covington, was reported in guarded condition Sunday in Danville’s St. Elizabeth Hospital. He was being observed in the intensive care unit for possible head injuries.
Joseph Fox, 20, also of Covington, was in guarded condition but improving with lacerations.
Cooper was born April 20, 1957, at Danville. The son of the late John F. and Mary Lou (Hughes) Cooper, he is survived by his mother; two brothers, John and Robert Scott; sister, Kelly, all at home, and his maternal grandmother, Bernice Hughes of Covington.
A 1975 graduate of Covington High School, he attended Vincennes University in 1975-76. He worked in the quality control division of Tee-Pak in Danville.
He was a member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Covington, where he served as a server, altar boy and acolyte.
Services were at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph’s with the Rev. Donald Vernon officiating. Burial was at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Covington. -s