This posting dated 2-23-2014:
We were contacted by Cathy Clay, who included in an email that she had learned that Steve Hamilton passed away in 2012.

Cathy Clay wrote:

Also, I just learned that Steve Hamilton, who attended Cooper the last semester of his senior year, passed away in April 2012.  He lived on Fort Phantom Lake here in Abilene.  Wife, Kathy and two sons, Tisque and Cade.