Bethany Jeanne Cooper |
| Posted 2008-12-16 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Des Moines, Register, Des Moines, Iowa Monday, October 22, 2003 BETHANY JEANNE COOPER - Des Moines Bethany Jeanne Cooper, 24, passed away October 20, 2003 at home following an almost two-year battle against a malignant brain tumor. She was born in Flagstaff, Arizona on December 12, 1978. She was a committed Christian who took an energetic and compassionate approach to everything she did, possessed a lively intellect and had a love for literature. She was a 1996 valedictorian at North High School and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in 2000 from William Jewell College in Liberty, MO. During college, Bethany spent a semester in Washington, D.C. as an intern for then-Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri. She spent her junior year studying at Oxford University in England. After college, she followed a dream of living in Boston, where she worked for an investment company and the Blue Man Group theater troupe. She returned to Des Moines in 2001 and was last employed as a fundraiser for a political campaign. An active member of Grace Church in Des Moines for many years, she was a student youth leader and went on a missionary trip to Mexico. One of her last projects was working with Pastor Todd Stiles of Grace West Church in West Des Moines on a study book covering the Gospel of John. Bethany is survived by her parents, Steve and Elaine Cooper of Des Moines brothers, Ensign Benjamin Cooper, USN, of Pensacola, FL, and Nathaniel Cooper of St. Louis, MO her grandmother, Lucille Mueller of Des Moines and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. Visitation will be from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Brooks Funeral Care, 7975 University in Clive. A memorial service will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Grace Church, 4200 E. 25th Street in Des Moines. Memorial gifts may go to New Horizons Adult Day Center in Ankeny or to Grace West Church. Transcriber note: Burial in St Patrick's Cemetery, Madison County, Ia. |
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