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March 10, 2010

Eugene G. Cooper Telephone Company Executive

Eugene G. Cooper, 87, a Chesapeake and Potomac telephone worker who
coordinated the installation of presidential phones when President Lyndon B.
Johnson was in the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center, died Feb. 19
[2010] at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring. He had chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease.

Mr. Cooper, a Silver Spring resident, worked for C&P his entire career,
serving as the company's liaison to the White House in the 1960s. He retired
as an executive personnel director in 1982, after 47 years with the company.
He then became a real estate agent and worked for Flaherty and Wing Realty
in Kensington until the early 1990s.

Eugene George Cooper was a native of Lykens, Pa., and a graduate of
Gettysburg College. He was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II.

He was a member of the Sligo Tennis Club and competed in many National
Senior games, winning medals in his age category during the 1990s. In 1982,
he sailed a 34-foot sailboat to Bermuda and back.

Survivors include his wife of 64 years, LaVerne Ludwig Cooper of Silver
Spring; four daughters, Amanda J. Cooper of Silver Spring, Kimberley C.
McCullough of Midlothian, Stacey C. Volland of Ashton, Md., and Alison
Cooper-Terrell of Linwood, N.J.; eight grandchildren; and five
great-grandchildren.

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Patricia Sullivan