Linda (Howell - Cooper) Cooper - Hevly |
| Posted 2009-10-13 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff, Arizona Thursday, August 06, 2009 Linda Howell Sharp Cooper Hevly, 71, died Aug. 3, 2009, after a valiant fight with cancer. She was born April 3, 1938, in White Plains, N.Y., to Ray Howell and Evelyn Emma Dougherty Howell. Her mother married James C. Sharp on Feb. 23, 1950, and he embraced Mrs. Hevly as his daughter and legally adopted her the same year. She graduated from Greenwich High School in Connecticut and Middlebury College in Vermont not only with a bachelor's degree in geography, but also with enough credits that she could have had degrees in political science and Spanish as well. After leaving college, she moved home to New York and began working at the IBM World Trade Center. On June 30, 1962, she married Peter Cooper, an associate with W.L. Gore and Associates, Inc. in Delaware. They moved to Flagstaff because Mr. Cooper was asked to manage the company's first plant when it opened here on Sept. 29, 1967. She worked at Thompson and Nordstrom CPAs in the tax department and returned to school and earned her master's degree in accountancy in 1987 at Arizona State University. She was licensed to practice public accounting by the Arizona State Board of Accountancy until June, 2008, and also taught accounting at Northern Arizona University until her retirement 1999. She married Richard Holmes Hevly, a professor of botany for 33 years at NAU, in 1991. She shared a love of the outdoors with her husband. Mrs. Hevly is survived by sons James (Shauna) Cooper and Richard (Michele) Cooper; three grandsons; stepsister Victoria Paul of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.; and her stepsons, Brian Hevly (Robbie), Kevin Hevly and Scott Hevly (Lohti). She was predeceased by husbands Peter Cooper and Richard Holmes Hevly. Condolences to the family may be sent through Norvel Owens Mortuary at www.norvelowensmortuary.com. Donations in the name of the Cooper Hevly Endowed fund can be made to the Museum of Northern Arizona Foundation, 3101 N. Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001. Norvel Owens Mortuary Aspen Cremation is handling arrangements. |
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