The Dover Tribune, Dover, NH
April 28, 1932, page 8

Obituaries and Obsequies

Death Of
Mrs. Bertha C. Hooper

On Thursday, April 21, Mrs. Bertha Courser Hooper passed away at the
hospital in Salem, Mass.  Funeral service and burial were at Pine Hill
cemetery, Dover, N.H., on Saturday.  Rev. Arthur M. Dunstan, rector
of the Episcopal church, conducted the service.

Mrs Hooper was born in Dover, September 4, 1870.  She was a direct
descendant pf Rev. John Wentworth, the first minister of the Dover
settlement and also of Deacon Ralph Hall.

Her parents were William M. Courser and Mary Elizabeth (Wentworth)
Courser.  Her father, a Civil War veteran, who is in his nintieth 
year, is now living in Berwick, Maine.

Mrs Hooper graduated from the public schools of Dover and from Wellesley
College, class of 1892.  She taught in the Bridgewater high school
until her marriage to A. Frank Hooper of Bridgewater, Mass., which
took place in 1869.  Her happy married life was of short duration as
Mr. Hooper died in 1902.

Mrs. Hooper returned to her teaching and lost herself in the lives
of her pupils.  She has continued to teach until her death, leaving
the work of her classes, planned for a substitute teacher while
at the hospital, which she expected would not exceed two weeks.

During her years of teaching, she taught in the high schools of
Dover, and Kingston, N.H., and Salem, Mass.  Then she became assistant
to Principal Charles P. Kendall at North Stonington, CT., at Howard
Seminary, West Bridgewater, Mass., and at Kendall Hall, Prider Crossing,
Mass.  These three positions covered a period of twenty years.

Few people have had the opportunity to help mold the lives of a
larger number of students.  She was a woman of high ideals with a
keen interest in the mental and moral development of her students.
She gave un reservedly for their good and appreciated the respect
and the affection of this, her great family.

Mrs. Hooper made few friends outside the school - but those who
had her friendship realized a deep and sincere affection which
was loyal and generous at all times.  She was a woman of high Christian
principles with unusual reverence for the church.

Her's was a life of giving.  She will always be remembered for her
willingness to serve and interest in others.


Courtesy of:  Jan Williamson
              mwllmson@flash.net
Date:         May 12, 1998


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