Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 04:22:24 :
Novato Advance
Wednesday, February 15, 1978
ROBERT E. HOOPER
Mass of the Christian Burial was offered Monday at Holy Name of Jesus Church in San Francisco for San Francisco Police Officer Robert E. Hooper, a resident of Novato.
Hooper, 42, was shot and killed Thursday night in San Francisco after he made a routine traffic stop. Arrested in the slaying was Robert W. Thomson, 34, an unemployed waiter who allegedly fired several shots hitting Hooper in the face and winging a second officer inflicting minor injuries.
Some 700 persons, including a large contingent of police offices from all over Northern California and top city officials attended Monday’s mass for the slain officer. Novato Police Sgt. Karl Knobelauch and Officer Rick Berndt represented the Novato department.
A 14-year-old (sic) veteran of the force, Hooper was in the news four years ago when he was shot point blank by another suspect in a routine traffic stop but was uninjured because he was wearing a bullet proof vest that he had purchased himself.
After that, bullet proof vests became standard equipment for motorcycle cops.
A native of San Francisco, Hooper was a member of the San Francisco Police Officers Association Widows and Orphans, Municipal Motorcycle Officers Club, and the South San Francisco Parlor No. 157, Native Sons of the Golden West.
He was also a member of Our Lady of Loretto parish here and made his home on Stasia Drive.
Surviving are his wife, Conseulo (sic); a son, Scott; two daughters, Janice and Suzanne Hooper, all of Novato; his mother, Ida Hooper; three sisters, Dorothy Post, Jean Spencer and Lillian McGough; and his parents-in-law Antonio and Carmen Aguilar, all of San Francisco.
Burial was at Holy Cross Cemetery, Memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society or San Francisco Heart Fund are preferred by the family.
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