- Date Of Birth: December 14, 1994
- Date Of Death: November 25, 2022
- State: West Virginia
Cody Lawton Cooper, 27, of Nemacolin, PA., passed away with his wife by his side on Friday, November 25, 2022 at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, WV.
Cody was born on December 14, 1994, in Morgantown, a son of Gary Franklin and Heather (Whittaker) Cooper Jr. of Albright, WV and Cindy (Gordy) and Richard “Dick” Coddington Jr. of Bruceton Mills, WV.
Cody was a 2013 graduate of Preston High School in Kingwood where he was on the lacrosse team. He was an avid video game player, enjoyed table games role playing games, airsoft, and building computers.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife of four years Kristi (Knotts) Cooper of Nemacolin, PA; brother and sisters, Taylor Cooper of Bruceton Mills, WV, Hunter Whittaker of Albright, WV and Nicole Coddington and partner Joey Tasker of Deer Park, MD; his Aunt Melynda “Mac” (Cooper) and husband, Chris Jones of Waynesburg, PA; maternal grandparents, Gerald & Louise Welch of Hicks, LA and Jeanette & Robert Gordy of Hicks, LA; Honorary grandmother, Ma Ma Aunt Kala Gordy of Hicks, LA.; his mother and father-in-law, James and Angela Knotts of Tunnelton; brother-in-law, Bryan Scott and Abie Knotts of Kingwood; nephew Braylan Knotts of Kingwood; niece Grayle Knotts of Kingwood.
He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents Gary and Linda (Maxwell) Cooper and his sister Melissa Kaye Cooper.