Katherine Cooley Rivers (1920-2006) Chicago, IL
Rivers, Katherine Cooley 86, died peacefully on May 11th, after a long struggle with Alzheimer's. She graduated from Hyde Park H.S., and pursued a M.A. in Art History at the U. of Chicago before moving to San Diego CA in 1957. There, she taught English with the S.D. Comm. College District, and retired in 1986. In 1994, she moved with her daughter to Ithaca. She was a talented artist and loved to garden, cook, read, and sing in her church choir. She is survived by her daughter Christina Rivers (Shawn Boyd) of Chicago, sister Ruth C. Parish of San Francisco CA, brothers-in-law Gilbert (Marea) Rivers of Chicago, and Ernie Rivers of Hesperia CA, and several nieces and nephews. Services were held in Ithaca on May 15. Katie was truly a renaissance woman, and will be missed by all who loved her.
Published in the Chicago Sun-Times on 6/1/2006.