Kathryn Mary Cooper THOMASVILLE - Kathryn Mary Cooper, 84, a retired educator, died Monday, April 28, 2003, at Shands Hospital in Gainesville. She is survived by her husband, Sam Cooper. The service will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, at Allen & Allen Funeral Home (229-226-6331) in Thomasville, with the Rev. Bob Dixon officiating.Family will receive friends after the service at the funeral home. Visitors may sign the online guest register atwww.allenfh.com. She was born Aug. 25, 1918, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. the daughter of the late Richard and Isabelle Clark Happel. She married Sam Cooper on April 13, 1941, in Schenectady, N.Y. After receiving her master's degree from Hofstra University in Long Island, N.Y., she went on to become a school teacher and assistant principal at Benjamin Franklin Junior High in Ridgewood, N.J. She was an accomplished pianist and vocalist and often played the piano for Southern Pines residents and the Kitchen Band.Other survivors include a son, Raymond Cooper of Portland, Maine; a daughter, Linda Cooper of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; and five grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Richard Cooper.