The Coopers of Long Hill

Ivan L. Cooper 1903–1981

Catalog ID p.2286 · Cite this page: njcoopers.com/p/2286/

Ivan L. Cooper was born on 25 Jan 1903 in Hutchinson, Kansas, the son of Charles Franklin Cooper and Catherine Jeanette (Wiley) Cooper. He married twice: probably Marietta Ball and Adelia M. Cooper. He died on 15 Sep 1981 in Sonoma Co., California. Three children are recorded.

Also recorded as: Gary Lloyd Cooper J.446, B.123, F.343

Facts

EventDatePlace / detailCertaintySources
birth 25 Jan 1903 Hutchinson, Kansas certain J.446, B.123, F.343, D.769, E.32
residence 1910 Salt Creek Twp, Reno Co., Kansas certain D.769
residence 1 Mar 1915 Salt Creek Twp, Reno Co., Kansas certain E.32
residence 1 Jan 1920 Sherman East, Hutchinson Ward 4, Reno Co., Kansas possible D.813
residence 1 Mar 1925 916 High, Harvey Co., Kansas certain E.33
residence 1 Apr 1935 Oakland, Alameda Co., California certain D.809
residence 1 Apr 1940 1610 Oakland Blvd., Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., California certain D.809
residence 14 Feb 1942 1610 Oakland Blvd, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., California certain B.123
residence 14 Feb 1942 416 Latham Square Bldg, Oakland, Alameda Co., California (place of business) certain B.123
residence 20 Apr 1942 Contra Costa Co., California certain B.129
military 20 Apr 1942 San Francisco, California; Enlisted, Army of the United States; Private, service number 19084178 certain B.129
residence 1 Apr 1950 1610 Oakland Blvd., Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., California certain D.810
residence 1978 California certain J.445
residence 1981 High School Road, Sebastopol, Sonoma Co., California certain J.446
occupation 1 Apr 1940 paint contractor certain D.809
occupation 1942 Self Employed; place of business 416 Latham Square Bldg, Oakland certain B.123
occupation 20 Apr 1942 Semiskilled painters, construction and maintenance certain B.129
occupation 1 Apr 1950 Salesman, tires certain D.810
death 15 Sep 1981 Sonoma Co., California certain J.446, F.343

Family

Parents

Spouses

Siblings

Children

  1. Jimmie Lloyd Cooper 1926–1980 probable F.342
  2. Billie Dean Cooper 1927–1991 probable F.342
  3. Living D.770

Family tree

Solid lines and outlines: certain. Dashed: probable or weaker. Open the full tree (four generations)

Marietta (Ball) SmithMarietta (Ball) Smith1908Adelia M. CooperAdelia M. Cooper1905Ivan L. CooperIvan L. Cooper1903–1981Charles Franklin CooperCharles Franklin Cooper1861–1938Lewis Sanford CooperLewis Sanford Cooper1825–1905Mary Jane (Jones) CooperMary Jane (Jones) Cooper1827–1880Catherine Jeanette (Wiley) CooperCatherine Jeanette (Wil…1867–1908George G. Wiley1841–1884Charlottie Ann (Carlile…1844–1930Jimmie Lloyd CooperJimmie Lloyd Cooper1926–1980Billie Dean CooperBillie Dean Cooper1927–1991Living

In the documents

Every published document that names Ivan L. Cooper, in date order, with what that document itself records.

DateDocumentRoleWhat it records
7 May 1910 D.769 census population 1910
1910 U.S. census, Salt Creek Township, Reno Co., Kansas, E.D. 155, sheet 7A, lines 10-18
 child
as "Ivan, 7"
residence: 1910, Salt Creek Twp, Reno Co., Kansas
1920 D.813 federal census
1920 US Federal Census - Hutchinson Ward 4, Reno Co., Kansas, ED 175, sheet 5A, lines 11-12 (Elsie A. Tiffany household, dwelling 405, family 119), Sherman East
 lodger
as "—, Ivan"
residence: 1 Jan 1920, Sherman East, Hutchinson Ward 4, Reno Co., Kansas
occupation: 1 Jan 1920, candy maker
1 Mar 1925 E.33 census state kansas 1925
1925 Kansas state census, Population schedule, Harvey Co. (per index), page 9 (two-page opening), lines 18-19
 head
as "Cooper Ivan, 23"
residence: 1 Mar 1925, 916 High, Harvey Co., Kansas
occupation: [?] Shop Employe

6 further documents not published (they may name living people).

Still unknown, and where we have looked

Other searches recorded

ancestry all 2026-10-19 · THE 1930 CENSUS AGAIN, THE SAME HOUR, BY COMPLETE-COUNTY LIST — the step the row below named as 'what is left'. All THREE place ids were...
Searched for: THE 1930 CENSUS AGAIN, THE SAME HOUR, BY COMPLETE-COUNTY LIST — the step the row below named as 'what is left'. All THREE place ids were read out of the search form, not guessed, and both are new to the verified table: Harvey Co., Kansas = 1325, Alameda Co., California = 126, Contra Costa Co., California = 726. (a) ?name=_Cooper&count=50&residence=_harvey-kansas-usa_1325&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0 — every Cooper in the county the family lived in on 1 March 1925: 10 rows, ALL READ. (b) ?name=_Cooper&count=50&residence=_alameda-california-usa_126&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0&birth=1903_kansas-usa&birth_x=1-0-0 — every Cooper of HIS COHORT in the county the family lived in on 1 April 1935: 29 rows, ALL READ. (The unbounded Alameda list is far too large to read; the year bound is what makes it a search.) AND THE FORM BUILT THE FILTERLESS URL BOTH TIMES — the sixth and seventh occurrences recorded. Taking each id straight out of the form's own URL gave ...&residence=_harvey-kansas-usa_1325 with no residence_x token, and that search returns 142,817 rows against the corrected 10. Caught in one second by reading the count before the rows. (c) ?name=_Cooper&count=50&residence=_contra+costa-california-usa_726&residence_x=1-0-0_1-0 — every Cooper in the county the family is in in 1940 (Walnut Creek): 57 rows, BOTH PAGES READ, unbounded by year so that the children could not be missed either.
Result: TWO COMPLETE-COUNTY NULLS, AND TOGETHER THEY NARROW THE MIGRATION. (a) Harvey Co., Kansas held exactly TEN Coopers in April 1930 — Orene P & Gladys O, Alice N, Edward L & Emma with a son, Pearl B & Norman, Emily A, and Wallace K. None of them is this family. ⇒ They had left Harvey County within five years of the March 1925 state census that put them at 916 High. (b) Alameda Co., California held 29 Coopers of his cohort and NOT ONE IS KANSAS-BORN — the birthplaces are California, Louisiana, Michigan, Massachusetts, South Dakota, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Iowa, England, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois. ⇒ They had not yet reached Alameda County either. SO THE MOVE IS BOUNDED ON BOTH SIDES AND THE 1930 HOUSEHOLD IS IN NEITHER END OF IT. The family leaves Harvey Co. after March 1925, is somewhere else entirely in April 1930, and is at Oakland by April 1935. (c) Contra Costa Co., California held 57 Coopers in April 1930 and the family is not among them — the Kansas-born ones are Margaret E (1882), Ina N (1887), William D (1885) and L Robert (1906), none of them Ivan's household. ⇒ They had not reached Contra Costa either, though it is where [D.-] finds them ten years later at Walnut Creek. THREE COMPLETE COUNTIES EXHAUSTED IN ONE PASS — the county they left, and BOTH counties they are later found in. That is as far as county lists can take this without a new idea. What is left is the rest of each state: Reno Co., Kansas (where they were in 1920) and the other Bay Area counties — Contra Costa above all, since [D.-]'s 1940 entry has them at Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., not Oakland.
ancestry all 2026-10-19 · THE FAMILY'S 1930 CENSUS — the one year missing from Ivan L. Cooper's otherwise dense residence series, and the single open gap on both...
Searched for: THE FAMILY'S 1930 CENSUS — the one year missing from Ivan L. Cooper's otherwise dense residence series, and the single open gap on both sons Jimmie Lloyd Cooper and Billie Dean Cooper. 1930 census (coll. 6224), four shapes, every one keyed on a different member so that a mangling of any one name could not defeat all of them: (a) ?name=Ivan_Cooper&name_x=1_1&birth=1903_kansas-usa&birth_x=1-0-0&count=50 — 4 rows, all read. (b) ?name=Marietta_Cooper&name_x=1_1&birth=1908&birth_x=1-0-0&count=50 — 1 row. (c) ?name=Billie_Cooper&birth=1927_kansas-usa&birth_x=1-0-0&count=50 — 343 rows; page 1 (50) read and recorded as such. The window is tight and known: the family is at 916 High, Harvey Co., Kansas on 1 March 1925 [E.32-era state census] and at Oakland, Alameda Co., California on 1 April 1935 (the 1940 schedule's own 1935 question). April 1930 falls between, and could be either state.
Result: NULL FROM ALL THREE. (a) The four exact Ivan Coopers of his cohort are born Michigan, Utah, Texas and Illinois — not one in Kansas. (b) The only Marietta Cooper of hers is a Pennsylvania wife of a Robert C. (c) Of 343 Billie Cooper rows the first fifty include two Kansas-born boys and neither has Ivan and Marietta for parents. WHAT IS LEFT, and it is a different KIND of search rather than more names: a complete-county COOPER list for Harvey Co., Kansas (where they were in 1925) and for Alameda Co., California (where they were by 1935), surname-only with the place recipe — the shape that is indifferent to given-name manglings and that closed Arthur Robert Cooper's and Ruth C. (Cooper) Williams's questions earlier the same day. Neither place id is in the verified table yet, so both must be read out of the form. Recorded on Ivan L. Cooper because the gap is the HOUSEHOLD's; Jimmie Lloyd Cooper and Billie Dean Cooper each carry a pointer rather than a copy.
ancestry all 2026-10-16 · HIS 1930 CENSUS BY PLACE, IN KANSAS - and the reason for choosing Kansas is itself a correction to this file. The todo below says "the...
Searched for: HIS 1930 CENSUS BY PLACE, IN KANSAS - and the reason for choosing Kansas is itself a correction to this file. The todo below says "the 1930 next step is an Oakland city directory", on the strength of his 1935 and 1942 Oakland ties. BUT HIS SON GEORGE Living WAS BORN ABOUT 1930 IN KANSAS, and his two elder sons were born at Newton, Harvey Co., Kansas in 1926 and 1927 [F.342], and [E.33] has him at 916 High, Harvey Co. in 1925. ⇒ THE FAMILY WAS IN KANSAS AT OR ABOUT THE 1930 CENSUS, not California, and the Oakland move belongs to the early 1930s. So: 1930 US Federal Census (Ancestry coll. 6224), surname Cooper, NO given name, NO birth year, residence HARVEY, KANSAS (exact) - the county his children were born in.
Result: NULL, AND IT IS A COMPLETE-LIST NULL: HARVEY COUNTY HOLDS EXACTLY TEN COOPER ROWS IN 1930 and the list ends on page 1 (the next rows are Cowley Co.). They are, at NEWTON: Orene P and Gladys O; Alice N (head, b. abt 1861 Kansas); Edward L and Emma with son Edward L (b. abt 1925); Pearl B with son Norman - and at SEDGWICK: Emily A (b. abt 1853 Missouri) and Wallace K (brother-in-law). ⇒ NO Ivan, no Gary, no Marietta, and no household with boys born 1926, 1927 and 1930. He is not in Harvey County in 1930 under the Cooper surname at all. WHAT THIS LEAVES, and it is a narrower question than before: the family was in KANSAS around 1930 on the evidence of George's birthplace, but not in the county where the elder boys were born. The untried Kansas counties are RENO (where his father and brothers were) and whatever county the Oakland move started from. AND THE OAKLAND CITY DIRECTORY IDEA IN THE TODO SHOULD BE RE-DATED rather than abandoned - it is a good route to the MOVE, but 1930 looks too early for it.
ancestry all 2026-10-16 · HIS 1930 CENSUS BY PLACE, SECOND COUNTY: RENO, KANSAS (exact) - where his father Charles Franklin Cooper, his brother Elden Cooper and...
Searched for: HIS 1930 CENSUS BY PLACE, SECOND COUNTY: RENO, KANSAS (exact) - where his father Charles Franklin Cooper, his brother Elden Cooper and his uncles were. Same recipe, same collection (6224), surname Cooper, no given name, no birth year. PAGES 1 AND 2 READ - 100 rows - AND THE LIST HAD NOT LEFT THE COUNTY, so this is NOT a complete-list null and is deliberately not written up as one. (Per the page-count rule added to [[feedback_ancestry_place_recipe_when_names_are_garbled]] earlier the same day, after that exact overclaim was found twice in this catalog.)
Result: FINISHED THE SAME EVENING - PAGE 3 READ, AND IT LEAVES RENO COUNTY PARTWAY THROUGH (after the Lorenzo D Cooper household at Sylvia the rows are Leavenworth Co.). ⇒ THE RENO COUNTY COOPER LIST FOR 1930 IS COMPLETE AT ABOUT 118 ROWS, pages 1-3, and NO IVAN, NO GARY AND NO MARIETTA IS IN IT. Page 3 adds Salt Creek (Leslie's household; Ward W Ward Walcott Cooper with Opal, Kenneth C, Harland D and Eugene R), Sumner (Edward F), and Sylvia (Lorenzo D). ⇒ A complete-list null for the county his father and brothers lived in, matching the Harvey County one above. TWO USEFUL CORROBORATIONS FELL OUT OF IT, both of households the catalog already holds: 'Eldin L Cooper / Kathyren / son Eldin L (b. abt 1923)' at Hutchinson = Elden Cooper and [D.773]; and at NICKERSON, 'Charles L Cooper / Lillian M' with Lena I, Eldin L (b. abt 1915), Gerald R, William F, Richard W and HAROLD E (b. abt 1925) = Charles Levitt Cooper Charles Levitt Cooper's household with Harold E Cooper Harold as a five-year-old. NOTE THE THIRD ELDIN: Charles L's son Eldin L, b. abt 1915, is the same boy the 1920 Salt Creek list flagged as a trap against Elden Cooper Elden b. 1896. Two Eldin L Coopers in one county in one census, a generation apart. NEXT on this thread: finish the Reno County pages, then try the counties between Harvey and California - and note that his son George's birth 'abt 1930 Kansas' Living is itself only an index reading and would be worth confirming before more counties are swept on the strength of it.
ancestry all 2026-10-16 · HIS 1920 CENSUS, reached from his BROTHER's side rather than his own. 1920 US Federal Census (coll. 6061), surname Cooper, NO given...
Searched for: HIS 1920 CENSUS, reached from his BROTHER's side rather than his own. 1920 US Federal Census (coll. 6061), surname Cooper, NO given name, NO birth year, residence RENO, KANSAS (exact), 50 per page - the same place recipe run twice before, but with PAGE 2 read this time. The earlier runs stopped at page 1, which ends in Salt Creek Twp; Hutchinson is on page 2. Full detail at Elden Cooper.
Result: A CANDIDATE, GRADED POSSIBLE, NOT A CONFIRMED FIND -> [D.813]. An 'Ivan' Cooper lodging in Elsie A. Tiffany's house at Hutchinson Ward 4, on the line BELOW a 'Cooper, Elden', both candy makers at the same candy company (establishment 454). Elden is almost certainly his brother Elden Cooper, whose 1930-1940 career is at a Hutchinson candy company. THE AGE IS THE OBJECTION: he was 16 on census day (b. 25 Jan 1903 [B.123]) and the index reads this man 24. The plate's age cell is ILLEGIBLE and was not read; the line above it, Elden's, reads 26 where he should be 23, so the informant - the landlady - was over-stating in the same direction. Recorded as a possible residence, not as his census. NEXT: a Hutchinson city directory 1919-21, or anything placing him at Hutchinson between the 1915 [E.32] and 1925 [E.33] state censuses.
ancestry all 2026-10-16 · HIS 1930 CENSUS, SEARCHED UNDER 'GARY' FOR THE FIRST TIME. SIGNED IN. Every previous attempt at this gap - five of them across two...
Searched for: HIS 1930 CENSUS, SEARCHED UNDER 'GARY' FOR THE FIRST TIME. SIGNED IN. Every previous attempt at this gap - five of them across two providers on 10 and 15 October - searched for Ivan, Lloyd, Billie, Jimmie or Marietta. Today [D.809] and [D.810] established that he was calling himself GARY by 1940, so: 1930 US Census (coll. 6224), given name Gary, surname Cooper, birth 1903 +/-3, NO place. 47 results, all read - the whole of the engine's answer.
Result: NULL, AND IT IS A COMPLETE ONE: THERE IS NO GARY COOPER OF HIS AGE IN THE 1930 INDEX ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES. Ancestry reduces 'Gary' phonetically to Carry / Carrie / Cora / Carl and to a G middle initial, so all 47 rows are women named Carrie or Cora, or men indexed with a middle G - not one is a Gary. ⇒ His 1930 row is under NEITHER of the two names he is known to have used. AND THE PLACE RECIPE CANNOT RESCUE IT HERE. [D.809] puts him at OAKLAND, Alameda Co. on 1 April 1935, which is the obvious place to try - but Oakland had some 284,000 people in 1930 and the surname-plus-exact-residence recipe only works on a township or small town (see [[feedback_ancestry_place_recipe_when_names_are_garbled]], written today). NEXT: a 1929-1931 OAKLAND CITY DIRECTORY for a Cooper at a traceable address - he was a painter, so the trade listings are worth as much as the alphabetical ones - then the enumeration district for that address, then an image browse. His wife Marietta and the two boys are the other handle: they were at Newton, Kansas in 1925 [E.33] and in San Francisco by 1940 [D.770], so 1930 falls inside that move too.
ancestry all 2026-10-16 · HIS 1920 CENSUS GAP, which had no search recorded. He turned 17 on 25 January 1920 and would normally be in his father's household, so...
Searched for: HIS 1920 CENSUS GAP, which had no search recorded. He turned 17 on 25 January 1920 and would normally be in his father's household, so the search was run from BOTH sides and is recorded in full at Charles Franklin Cooper: (a) 1920 US Federal Census (coll. 6061), surname Cooper, NO given name, NO birth year, residence Rice, Kansas (exact) - the complete list of Rice Co. Coopers, because his father is at Wilson Twp, Rice Co. in 1930; (b) given name Ivan (exact both names), birth 1903 +/-3 in Kansas, ANY SURNAME, any place - 666 rows, page 1 read, which covers every Kansas-born Ivan resident in Kansas.
Result: NULL on both. Rice Co. holds exactly seven Coopers in 1920 and none is this family. No Ivan of the right age sits in any Kansas household under any surname with a father Charles and a mother Maud. ⇒ With the complete Salt Creek Twp, Reno Co. list already null (2026-10-16, at Charles Franklin Cooper), both counties the family is documented in are exhausted by place as well as by name. Angle (b) matters because it tests the mis-transcribed-SURNAME hypothesis, which a Cooper-constrained search cannot: it fails too. Full detail and next steps at Charles Franklin Cooper.
ancestry all 2026-10-16 · HIS 1940 AND 1950 CENSUS GAPS, neither of which had a search recorded. SIGNED IN. Not a name search - every name search for this man has...
Searched for: HIS 1940 AND 1950 CENSUS GAPS, neither of which had a search recorded. SIGNED IN. Not a name search - every name search for this man has failed since 2026-10-10. The PLACE RECIPE: surname Cooper, NO given name, NO birth year, residence Walnut Creek, Contra Costa, California (exact), in the 1940 US Federal Census (collection 2442). The place came from his 1942 draft card [B.123]: 1610 Oakland Blvd, Walnut Creek. 159,237 ranked rows, Walnut Creek sorting first; rows 1-6 read.
Result: FOUND -> [D.809], image downloaded and filed. Row 5 is 'Gary L Cooper', 37, b. OKLAHOMA, Head, Walnut Creek, with wife 'Adelia M', 35, b. Washington - house number 1610, street Oakland Blvd., household 325, owned, $4,500, paint contractor (employer), 1935 residence Oakland, Alameda Co. THE SHEET ITSELF NAMES HIM GARY L IN THE ENUMERATOR'S HAND - this is not an indexing error, and it is why every Ivan search failed. THE SHEET GIVES HIS BIRTHPLACE AS OKLAHOMA, which no other record does; recorded as read, see the body.
ancestry all 2026-10-16 · HIS TWO UNDATED MARRIAGES, from BOTH sides, in a database neither of them had been searched in: 'U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index,...
Searched for: HIS TWO UNDATED MARRIAGES, from BOTH sides, in a database neither of them had been searched in: 'U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current' (Ancestry coll. 62116), which indexes marriage ANNOUNCEMENTS rather than returns and had just produced a date for Elden Cooper from a 1922 licence column. (a) surname Ball, given Marietta, no date, no place - 1,424 ranked; page 1 read. (b) surname Cooper, given Ivan, no date, no place - 16,566 ranked; page 1 read.
Result: NULL for both. No Cooper x Ball announcement anywhere; the Marietta Balls are Ohio, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Washington, New York. ONE NEAR-MISS WORTH NOT RE-CHECKING: two rows index an 'Ivan L Cooper' marrying 'Edna (I.) Hunt', announced at Vancouver, Washington on 19 Aug 1941 and at Salem, Oregon on 28 Aug 1941. That is the OREGON Ivan L. Cooper this file already excludes (b. 1902 Texas, see the 2026-10-10 ancestry-all row), not ours. Also present and not him: 'Corporal Ivan Cooper' x Eileen Gregory, Iola, Kansas, 23 Aug 1943. ⇒ The announcement route is exhausted for this couple; what is left is a California or Kansas marriage RETURN.
familysearch records 2026-10-15 · 1930 US Census (coll. 1810731), relationship search: (a) surname Cooper, father's given name Ivan, child b. 1924-1931 (3,428 fuzzy; page...
Searched for: 1930 US Census (coll. 1810731), relationship search: (a) surname Cooper, father's given name Ivan, child b. 1924-1931 (3,428 fuzzy; page 1 of 100 read); (b) given name Billie, mother's given name Marietta, b. 1926-1929, any surname (25,712 fuzzy; page 1 read).
Result: NULL - (a) the Ivan-fathered Cooper children on page 1 are in MI, OR, WI, NY, IL, SC (none Kansas- or California-born boys named Jimmie/Billie/George); (b) the only Billie with a mother Marietta are Billie R McDaniel (Kansas City MO, b. 1929 MO, father Lavergne) and Billie S Clouse (Port Arthur TX) - not him.
ancestry all 2026-10-15 · SIGNED IN. 1930 census (coll. 6224), residence California (his obituary: 'had lived in the state since 1928' [J.446]): surname Cooper...
Searched for: SIGNED IN. 1930 census (coll. 6224), residence California (his obituary: 'had lived in the state since 1928' [J.446]): surname Cooper (exact), b. 1903 +/-1 Kansas (22 rows, all read); surname Cooper, b. 1927 +/-1 Kansas (all rows read).
Result: NULL - no Ivan / Lloyd / Gary Cooper b. Kansas c. 1903 (the Kansas-born men are Harold W, Barney A, Lloyd E [wife Hazel], Herman L, William S - none with a Marietta or Adelia); no Jimmie / Billie / George among the Kansas-born Cooper children (a Robert G, son of Arch L and Anna E, Long Beach, is another family).
ancestry all 2026-10-15 · SIGNED IN. 1930 US Census (coll. 6224): (a) Ivan Cooper, b. 1903 +/-2, any place (78); (b) Billie Cooper, b. 1927 +/-1 in Kansas (343,...
Searched for: SIGNED IN. 1930 US Census (coll. 6224): (a) Ivan Cooper, b. 1903 +/-2, any place (78); (b) Billie Cooper, b. 1927 +/-1 in Kansas (343, page 1); (c) Jimmie Cooper (exact), b. 1926 +/-1 (11); (d) given name Marietta (exact), any surname, b. 1908 +/-2 in Kansas (717; pages 1-5 filtered for Ivan / Cooper / Livernois / Ball / Reynolds / Jimmie / Billie / George).
Result: NULL - no Kansas or California Ivan Cooper; no Billie or Jimmie Cooper born in Kansas of the right age in a Cooper, Ball or Reynolds household; no Marietta with any of those names (from page 2 on the rows are no longer Kansas-born). The 1930 household may be indexed under a mis-spelling, or the boys were with relatives under another surname.
familysearch tree 2026-10-10 · Profile GZD6-DSF (child of KV75-JZL Charles Franklin Cooper), read with its families.
Searched for: Profile GZD6-DSF (child of KV75-JZL Charles Franklin Cooper), read with its families.
Result: Ivan Lloyd Cooper, b. Nickerson, d. 15 Sep 1981 Sebastopol; wives Marietta Darline Reynolds Ball (1907-1999, b. Newton) and Adelia Marguerete Gray (1904-1982); sons Jimmie Lloyd (1926-1980) and Billie Dean (1927-1991). Leads only.
familysearch records 2026-10-10 · Ivan Cooper, b. 1901-1905; then spouse Marietta; then spouse Adelia; then b. 1902-1904 Kansas; then residence Contra Costa and Sonoma,...
Searched for: Ivan Cooper, b. 1901-1905; then spouse Marietta; then spouse Adelia; then b. 1902-1904 Kansas; then residence Contra Costa and Sonoma, California.
Result: 1910 [D.769] and 1915 [E.32] (already filed); 1925 Kansas census, Harvey Co., Ivan 23 and Marietta 17 [E.33]; NUMIDENT abstracts of the two sons [F.342]. No 1930 or 1940 census for Ivan identified; no death record.
familysearch records 2026-10-10 · Surname Cooper, b. 1901-1904, d. 1981, mother's surname Wiley.
Searched for: Surname Cooper, b. 1901-1904, d. 1981, mother's surname Wiley.
Result: California Death Index, Gary Lloyd Cooper [F.343]; its similar record, his 1942 draft card [B.123].
ancestry all 2026-10-10 · Ivan Cooper, b. 1903 +/-2 Kansas, d. 1981 +/-1.
Searched for: Ivan Cooper, b. 1903 +/-2 Kansas, d. 1981 +/-1.
Result: 37 results; Ivan Lloyd Cooper only in member trees (25 Jan 1903 - 15 Sep 1981; one tree puts him in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., in 1940). No record collections for him on the first page.
newspapers com 2026-10-10 · SIGNED IN. "Gary Cooper" Sebastopol, 15 Sep - 15 Oct 1981.
Searched for: SIGNED IN. "Gary Cooper" Sebastopol, 15 Sep - 15 Oct 1981.
Result: 3 matches; Sonoma West Times and News (Sebastopol), 23 Sep 1981, p. 14 - his obituary -> [J.446].
newspapers com 2026-10-10 · SIGNED IN. "Ivan Cooper", 15 Sep - 31 Oct 1981, California (0); same, all regions (6: Illinois, England, Michigan, Iola KS).
Searched for: SIGNED IN. "Ivan Cooper", 15 Sep - 31 Oct 1981, California (0); same, all regions (6: Illinois, England, Michigan, Iola KS).
Result: No obituary found.
genealogybank 2026-10-10 · SIGNED IN (chris_2535). Newspaper archives: Gary Cooper, keyword Sebastopol (367 results, page 1 read - San Francisco Chronicle items...
Searched for: SIGNED IN (chris_2535). Newspaper archives: Gary Cooper, keyword Sebastopol (367 results, page 1 read - San Francisco Chronicle items 1928-2002, Grand Island 1992).
Result: No 1981 obituary on page 1; the name collides with the actor's. The Sonoma West notice [J.446] was found on newspapers.com. (An earlier attempt the same day, 'Ivan Cooper, Sep-Dec 1981', did not load.)

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