Linda Louise Cooper was born September 20, 1948 in Kansas City Missouri to parents Clayton Jack Wolfe and Marye Louise Peterson. She is the oldest of four children and has three surviving siblings, Gary Wolfe, Ruth Skaggs, and Ron Wolfe.
She leaves behind her son, Kin Lo, daughter Nancy Richardson, her grandchildren Kaia, Koa, Carmen, and Caridad, along with many nieces, nephews, great nieces, and great nephews. However, Linda's family and friends know her most important and most valued family member and survivor was Bailey, her 2-year old golden retriever, otherwise known as "Bailey Bop". Taking long naps with him in the morning, making his homemade meals, and organizing daily dog park meetups.
Linda graduated from high school in Honolulu, Hawaii at Punahou School going on to earn an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from The University of Texas. Linda's whole life and reason for being centered around children and teaching. She taught high school, owned her own daycare business, worked in after school Latchkey programs, and privately tutored students in a variety of subjects.
She lived in Honolulu where she met her first husband, Kinbourne Lo with whom she raised her family. She eventually moved to Columbus, Ohio where she married her high school sweetheart, James Cooper. They were happily married until 2003 when Jim passed away unexpectedly.
In her free time, she took up ballroom dancing where she met her life partner, John Gianneschi, with whom she lived a quiet and peaceful life near Gahanna. The couple eventually retired, splitting their time between their home in Ohio on Rocky Fork Creek and her lake home in Alexandria, Minnesota.
Linda lived a simple and meaningful life. She kept her circle small, but for those who had the pleasure of being in that circle, they understand the legacy she leaves behind. One that is full of love, laughter, and comfort food - one that places her family above all else - and one that makes a house a home, especially the summers at her lake home in Minnesota where the family would gather year after year making memories that would last a lifetime.
It was just last year that she sat at her dining table and she said "when it's my time, don't feel bad - know that I have lived a very happy life, a good long life". And now, that time has come.
It is with the heaviest of hearts, that we have to say good-bye and trust she is in a better place with an unlimited assortment of Anthony's Chocolates, gorgeous purple sunsets, a very large Kohl's store, and dog parks for days.
Arrangements entrusted to Schoedinger Margarum Northeast. Visit www.schoedinger.com to share a special memory or extend condolences.
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