Kenneth Edward Cooper, age 58 of Forest City, died Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home.  He was formerly a resident of Inman, South Carolina.

Ken was born on September 11, 1965, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and is the son of Brenda Liles Cooper and the late Grady Edward Cooper. He was a graduate of Central Cabarrus High School and and Eagle Scout.  He later attended Central Piedmont Community College as well as Isothermal Community College.  In a selfless act of love, he donated a kidney to his late sister, Donna.   Ken worked as a machinist for Timken Corporation and was a lifelong Baptist. 

Ken loved the outdoors and he enjoyed fishing, however, woodworking was his favorite hobby and he was a talented craftsman and handyman often using tools passed down to him by his father. 

In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by a sister, Donna Cooper Fowler.

Survivors include his mother, Brenda Liles Cooper of Concord, North Carolina, his sons, Kenneth Cooper of Moore, South Carolina, and Kayden Cooper of Inman, South Carolina, his daughter, Ashley Cooper Hunter and husband Brien of Forest City, North Carolina, and his three grandchildren, Mason Hunter, Kaylynn Hunter and Jeremiah Hunter.

A memorial service will be held at 4 o’clock on Monday, July 15, 2024, at the Adaville Baptist Church with the Reverend Jeff Pate officiating.  The family will receive friends from 3 until 4 o’clock prior to the service in the Sanctuary of the church.  The interment will be held later at Sunset Memory Gardens in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

Memorials may be made to the National Kidney Foundation, 7413 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 27615 or www.kidney.org

The Padgett and King Mortuary and Crematory is in charge of arrangements and an online guest registry is available at www.padgettking.com