Wilma Hooper died on 27 January.Wilma Hooper (nee Cornell)
KOOWEERUP identity and much loved family member Wilma Hooper (nee Cornell) passed away on 27 January in Kooweerup Hospital. She was aged 90.
A service was held last Thursday and Kooweerup Uniting Church was filled to capacity with Ms Hooper’s family, friends and colleagues.
Mrs Hooper was married to Fred, who was the principal at Kooweerup Secondary College for 20 years. He passed away in 1991.
She taught at the school for numerous years as a domestic science teacher and her colleague and good friend Claudia Barker said she will be remembered as an energetic person who dedicated a lot of her time towards the community.
“She started at Kooweerup Secondary College as a domestic science teacher but her big contribution to the community at large was her role as president at the Westernport Light Opera Society, which she founded more than 40 years ago,” Ms Barker said.
“She was on all the local committees, the Uniting Church and the hospital – she was quite active right up to her time of death.”
Ms Barker said Mrs Hooper was very passionate about her theatre and would immerse herself in it whenever she could.
“In her retirement years, she was still an avid theatre goer – she used to go to the state theatre theatrical productions.”
Principal at Kooweerup Secondary College Kym Bridgford said she will be sadly missed.
“She was a keen (former) member of the teaching staff and a well respected teacher.”
She is remembered by her children Diane and Tony, Richard (dec.) and Margaret, Rosemary and Rex, Anthony and Julie, grandchildren Jane and Greg, Michael, Tim and Lisa, Stephen and Mairead, Jonathan and Malle, Amy, Adrian and Chantelle, Christopher, Jesse and great-grandchildren Madeleine, Brittany, Isabella, Harrison, Maybel and Marnie.
