In Memory

Charles E Cooley - Class Of 1917

Charles Cooley

February 7, 1899 - May 30, 1970

Charles E Cooley, former regional supervisor of the Federal Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine in San Francisco, died in Oakland Saturday. He was 71.

Mr Cooley studied agriculture at the University of California in Davis and in 1921 joined the federal agency.

He remained with the agency for 38 years, retiring in 1959 after serving for several years as regional supervisor. In that capacity, he was in charge of operations on the West Coast, Alaska, and Guam, and helped develop the first quarantine plant in the Hawaiian Islands during a threat of a fruit fly epidemic.

A native of California, he and his wife, the late Esther H Cooley, lived in Piedmont for many years. For the past several years, he lived at 3658 Monterey Road, Oakland.

He leaves a daughter, Mrs June Brusa of Alameda; a son, Jack Cooley of Boulder, Colorado; a brother, Frank Cooley (SPHS '15) of San Diego, and 11 grandchildren.

Oakland Tribune, June 2, 1970