Susan Cooper; Wrote Fanciful Children’s Lyrics

Susan Jack Cooper, 54, a writer who contributed to television’s “Captain Kangaroo” and wrote children’s lyrics for her composer-performer brother David Jack. Born in Philadelphia and educated at the University of Rochester and Yale Drama School, Cooper wrote plays produced in small New York theaters and wrote and performed with a comedy troupe called the Chamansky Sisters. For two years she was a staff writer for CBS-TV’s “Captain Kangaroo” children’s program and then for five years a writer for People magazine. Suffering from a genetic lung disease that causes emphysema, Cooper underwent a lung transplant in 1991 and relocated to San Diego, where she began working with her brother. Together they produced six albums and a music video, featuring her lyrics such as, “Suppose I said my tuna fish was calling on the phone? Or at my door was a dinosaur with a chocolate ice cream cone?” On March 31 in San Diego of emphysema.