Wife Susan Taylor Gordon Cooper
They remained married till coopers death.
Wife susan taylor gordon cooper. And trudy cooper remained mum about the time she left her husband gordo after she had discovered he was screwing another mans wife as rumor had it. Cooper got married to suzan taylor in 1972 a year after his divorce with his first wife. He was married to susan theresa taylor and gertrude bernice trudy olson.
Wire services contributed to this story. Cooper resided in ventura california. Trudy was born in february 1929 in seattle.
According to a nasa biography of mr. Instead she took him back for the. He has four daughters from his first marriage and two daughters from the second.
He died on october 4 2004 in ventura california usa. Mini bio 1 gordon cooper was born on march 6 1927 in shawnee oklahoma usa as leroy gordon cooper jr. He suffered from parkinsons disease and died at an age of 77 due to heart failure.
Janita lee cooper stone b. When she met gordo at the university. She has an independent personality and is passionate about womens rights and is also a registered pilot and owner of a courier service.
Leroy gordon gordo cooper jr. In april 2007 two years after his death coopers cremated ashes were briefly rocketed into suborbital space then returned to his family. An enigmatic woman who was always conspicuously quiet with reporters trudy relied on her kittenish eyes to say im happily marriedthe truth was trudy didnt want anyone to find out her little secret.
Trudy coopergordo coopers wifetrudy was the only licensed pilot among the astronaut wives. Camala keoki cooper thorpe b. March 6 1927 october 4 2004 was an american aerospace engineer test pilot united states air force pilot and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in project mercury the first human space program of the united statescooper learned to fly as a child and after service in the united states marine corps during world war ii he was commissioned.
Trudy cooper is the wife of gordo cooper though they eventually divorce. Cooper prepared for the 40th anniversary of his gemini flight last year that marriage ended in divorce and he married suzan taylor in 1972.