at Occidental College Los Angeles and was awarded honorary doctor of music degrees by Andrews University and La Sierra University. Hooper was married to Harriet Schwender in 1941 and had four children. He was ordained as a Seventh-day Adventist minister in 1955. He and his wife operated Key Music Company publishing music arrangements and books sent worldwide to customers. During retirement Hooper continued actively in music until his death on February 27, 2007, in Newbury Park, California. He was musical co-editor of the 1985 Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal as well as a companion volume () giving the history of the 695 selections and composers. More recently he spent many months restoring and transferring to CDs, the original reel-to-reel recordings of music by the King's Heralds, Del Delker, and other Voice of Prophecy musicians. A special project that he continued until a few months before his death was setting Bible verses to music to aid children in memorization. Online music repository The family of Wayne Hooper has made his original compositions and arrangements of public domain music available on a web site repository at http://www.vop.com/hoopermusic. This repository includes his six quartet books, more than 300 Bible memory verse compositions and over 1,000 unpublished works used during recording sessions by Del Delker, the King's Heralds and other soloists and groups. See also King's Heralds Seventh-day Adventist Church Voice of Prophecy References External links Lonnie Melanshanko Tribute to Wayne Hooper 1920 births 2007 deaths American gospel singers American male composers American Seventh-day Adventists People from Caldwell, Idaho Union College (Nebraska) alumni 20th-century American male singers 20th-century American singers 20th-century American composers