Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Couper, Elizabeth Bowden December 11, 2006
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Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA) December 16, 2006
Elizabeth Bowden Couper, 89, formerly of Waynesboro, Virginia, and Hockessin, 
Delaware, died peacefully at her residence, Westminster Canterbury of the Blue 
Ridge, in Charlottesville, Virginia, Monday, December 11, 2006.
Born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia, Mrs. Couper attended Agnes Scott College 
and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College of William and Mary with a major 
in French language and literature. In 1940, she married Monroe Couper, at that 
time an instructor in chemistry at the University of Virginia, and over the next 
13 years gave birth to four children. She devoted this part of her life to the 
family, nurturing her children and instilling in them by her own example a sense 
of tolerance, open-mindedness and independence.
From 1949 until 1970, Mrs. Couper was actively involved in the Hospital 
Auxiliary, the Parent-Teacher Association and the American Association of 
University Women in Waynesboro, Virginia. In 1970, when the family moved to 
Hockessin, Delaware, she continued to be active in the community and worked 
part-time as a museum guide at the Winterthur and Hagley Museums.
Mrs. Couper was, among other things, a lover of languages. From Latin in high 
school, she moved on to Greek and French in college and finally to Italian in 
later years. Once her children had grown, she traveled extensively in Europe. 
She was widely read and reported enthusiastically to book groups on her 
readings, especially in mid- and far-Eastern cultural studies. She enjoyed 
ballet, opera, and ballroom dancing and was known to concoct amazing dishes made 
from the wild mushrooms collected by her husband, an amateur mycologist.
At WCBR, Mrs. Couper was an active member of the Flower Committee and the Bridge 
Group. She was known and loved for her lilting laugh, her grace, her soft-spoken 
gentility - and her unmistakably Virginian accent.
She was preceded in death by her youngest son, Monroe Couper Jr.; and her 
husband of 66 years, Monroe Couper.
Mrs. Couper is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and her husband, 
Rainer Kuhlen, of Berlin, Germany; a son, Charles Couper and his wife, Diana 
Couper, of Brooklyn, New York; a daughter, Mary Lischer and her husband, Jeff 
Lischer, of Washington, D.C.; a daughter-in-law, Annie Couper, of South Orange, 
New Jersey; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
A service and reception to celebrate Elizabeth Couper’s life will be held at 
1:30 p.m. Sunday, December 17, 2006, at Westminster Canterbury of the Blue 
Ridge, 250 Pantops Mountain Road, Charlottesville, VA 22911.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Piedmont, 2200 Old Ivy Road, Suite 2, 
Charlottesville, VA 22903.
Family and friends may sign the guest register at teaguefuneralhome.com.


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