Ron began his funeral home career at the age of fifteen when he went to work
part-time for the William J. Swallow Funeral Home in Northampton, Pennsylvania. After graduating from high school, Ron served his apprenticeship at the Lewis W. Mohn Funeral Home in Seminole, Florida. In 1983, he became the owner and operator of the Wilson-Cooper Funeral Home in Kittery, Maine.

Ron began his career in public accounting in 1979 with the then "Big Eight" accounting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., leaving as a senior accountant to join Coopers & Lybrand in their Boston office. While operating the Wilson-Cooper Funeral Home, Ron managed the Ronald H. Cooper, C.P.A., P.A. practice which specialized in funeral home accounting, taxes and operations. He has successfully facilitated the acquisition of over fifty funeral homes in the U.S. and Canada. He is one of a very few Certified Public Accountants/Funeral Directors in the country. He has over twenty years of experience providing funeral home owners with professional services in the areas of accounting, tax planning and preparation, operations, retirement planning, mergers and acquisitions and succession planning.

In addition, Ron has designed and taught funeral home accounting and management courses at the college level. He also lectures nationwide on funeral home management, operations, mergers, acquisition and tax planning. He is a regular contributor to The Funeral Business Advisor, a quarterly publication dedicated to becoming the #1 resource for business growth and profitability in the funeral home industry. Click here to read the current issue.

Outside the office Ron is a family man. He married Pam in 1982 and has two daughters, Becca is currently a senior at Wells College, and Hannah is currently a sophomore at Colorado College. He is an outdoorsman who enjoys running, bicycling, and fly-fishing.