Mr. James A. Cooper, Jr., (Jim) passed away April 11, 2025 at the Baptist Reynolds Hospice House in Collierville, TN.  He was born in Madisonville, KY on April 17, 1928 to the late James A. Cooper, Sr., and Edna Carter Cooper.  Jim graduated from Oxford-University High School in 1946, and attended the University of Mississippi, graduating in 1952.  He was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.  During the summers in college, Jim worked for the United States Forestry Service In Idaho as a logger and firefighter.  Jim served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict, and worked in intelligence for the National Security Agency both in a military and civilian role.  Jim would later return to Ole Miss and graduate from Pharmacy School in 1962.  Jim moved his family to Grenada in the late 1960's where he became an owner of Dyre-Kent Drug Co. with the late G. Spivey Kent.  His son Al would later join them at Dyre-Kent after he graduated from Pharmacy School in 1984.

Jim was a devoted Christian and member of First Methodist Church in Grenada.  Jim was a kind, compassionate, and generous husband, brother, father, and grandfather, and a servant to the Grenada community through his pharmacy work and longtime membership in the Exchange Club.  He was also a pretty funny guy and always had interesting stories to tell Jim loved golf and loved to play in golf tournaments.  He received his first set of clubs at the age of 5 from his father when they lived in California, and did not hang up his golf spikes until the age of 90, while often shooting his age in his 70's and 80's.

Funeral services will be held at First Methodist Church in Grenada on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM, with the Rev. Daniel Herring officiating.  Interment will follow in the family plot in the Charleston City Cemetery.  The family will receive friends from 5:30-7:00 PM Wednesday evening at McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service and one hour prior to the service Thursday at the church.

Survivors include his son Ken Cooper (Holly) of Memphis, TN; grandson Casey Cooper and granddaughter Mary Margaret Cooper both of Memphis, TN; brother William (Margaret) Cooper of Bartlett, TN; special cousin Kay Nesbit (Tim) of Foley, AL; and numerous nephews and nieces whom he loved dearly.

Jim was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Mary Frances Driskell Cooper, his son James A. Cooper, III,(Al) and his sister Muriel Cooper Strong.