Editing C. Everett Koop (section)

==Personal life==
In early 1968, Koop's son David was killed in a rock climbing accident on [[Cannon Mountain (New Hampshire)|Cannon Mountain]] during his junior year at Dartmouth College. Koop later wrote that because of his son's death, he thought, "I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes."<ref name="memoir">''Koop: The Memoirs of America's Family Doctor'', Charles Everett Koop, HarperPaperbacks Mar 1, 1993, p. 126</ref> Years later, he and his wife wrote a book called ''Sometimes Mountains Move'' to help others who had lost a child. Koop's son, the Reverend Norman Koop, attended [[Eastern University (United States)|Eastern Baptist College]] (now Eastern University) and graduated in 1969. The following year, the elder Koop was elected to the board of trustees, becoming the first non-Baptist member of the board.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eastern.edu/node/2220 |title=Eastern University |access-date=June 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112042332/http://www.eastern.edu/node/2220 |archive-date=January 12, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

In February 2007, Elizabeth Koop, his wife of nearly 70 years, died.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}  On April 17, 2010, he married Cora Hogue, a former staff member of [[Tenth Presbyterian Church]] in Philadelphia.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}