Obituary from Bolivar Commercial (Cleveland, MS) - 06/29/2005
Kathlyn Beatrice Cockersole
"Sister" Cockersole has her dancing shoes on!
Kathlyn Beatrice Cockersole, 81, a longtime dance instructor in Cleveland, died Friday, June 24, 2005, at Sharpe Care Nursing Center in Oconto Falls, Wis. She had been ill for several years.
Mrs. Cockersole was born on June 30, 1923, to Ruth and Issac Keywood. She married James Hernden of Detroit in 1944. A career Marine, he was killed on a flying mission over North Korea in 1951 during the Korean War. Upon his death, she and the couple's two daughters moved to Cleveland where she began teaching dance in her mother's kindergarten program. In 1954, she married Alex Cockersole. The couple lived in Belzoni and Clarksdale before returning to Cleveland in 1959. He preceeded her in death in 1968.
Mrs. Cockersole, known by many of her friends as "Sister," owned and operated dance studios for more than 30 years in Belzoni, Clarksdale and Cleveland. She taught hundreds of children to dance ballet, jazz and tap. She used her dancing and choreography talents to help organize fundraising shows for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. She also choreographed performances for the community theater in Cleveland and was active in the American Legion Auxiliary in Cleveland.
She is survived by her two daughters, Durham Hernden Herzog of Gillette, Wis., and Karen Hernden Holman of Innsbrook, Mo; her younger sister, Martha Keywood Mikhailoff of Rockport, Texas; seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
A private family memorial service will be held in Wisconsin, where the body was cremated. A memorial service will be held on September 17, 2005, in Cleveland. Ashes will be interred in New Cleveland Cemetery, where her second husband is buried.
"Old dancers never die, they just shuffle off!"
Kathlyn Beatrice Cockersole
"Sister" Cockersole has her dancing shoes on!
Kathlyn Beatrice Cockersole, 81, a longtime dance instructor in Cleveland, died Friday, June 24, 2005, at Sharpe Care Nursing Center in Oconto Falls, Wis. She had been ill for several years.
Mrs. Cockersole was born on June 30, 1923, to Ruth and Issac Keywood. She married James Hernden of Detroit in 1944. A career Marine, he was killed on a flying mission over North Korea in 1951 during the Korean War. Upon his death, she and the couple's two daughters moved to Cleveland where she began teaching dance in her mother's kindergarten program. In 1954, she married Alex Cockersole. The couple lived in Belzoni and Clarksdale before returning to Cleveland in 1959. He preceeded her in death in 1968.
Mrs. Cockersole, known by many of her friends as "Sister," owned and operated dance studios for more than 30 years in Belzoni, Clarksdale and Cleveland. She taught hundreds of children to dance ballet, jazz and tap. She used her dancing and choreography talents to help organize fundraising shows for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. She also choreographed performances for the community theater in Cleveland and was active in the American Legion Auxiliary in Cleveland.
She is survived by her two daughters, Durham Hernden Herzog of Gillette, Wis., and Karen Hernden Holman of Innsbrook, Mo; her younger sister, Martha Keywood Mikhailoff of Rockport, Texas; seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
A private family memorial service will be held in Wisconsin, where the body was cremated. A memorial service will be held on September 17, 2005, in Cleveland. Ashes will be interred in New Cleveland Cemetery, where her second husband is buried.
"Old dancers never die, they just shuffle off!"
Obituary from Bolivar Commercial (Cleveland, MS) - 06/29/2005
Kathlyn Beatrice Cockersole
"Sister" Cockersole has her dancing shoes on!
Kathlyn Beatrice Cockersole, 81, a longtime dance instructor in Cleveland, died Friday, June 24, 2005, at Sharpe Care Nursing Center in Oconto Falls, Wis. She had been ill for several years.
Mrs. Cockersole was born on June 30, 1923, to Ruth and Issac Keywood. She married James Hernden of Detroit in 1944. A career Marine, he was killed on a flying mission over North Korea in 1951 during the Korean War. Upon his death, she and the couple's two daughters moved to Cleveland where she began teaching dance in her mother's kindergarten program. In 1954, she married Alex Cockersole. The couple lived in Belzoni and Clarksdale before returning to Cleveland in 1959. He preceeded her in death in 1968.
Mrs. Cockersole, known by many of her friends as "Sister," owned and operated dance studios for more than 30 years in Belzoni, Clarksdale and Cleveland. She taught hundreds of children to dance ballet, jazz and tap. She used her dancing and choreography talents to help organize fundraising shows for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. She also choreographed performances for the community theater in Cleveland and was active in the American Legion Auxiliary in Cleveland.
She is survived by her two daughters, Durham Hernden Herzog of Gillette, Wis., and Karen Hernden Holman of Innsbrook, Mo; her younger sister, Martha Keywood Mikhailoff of Rockport, Texas; seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
A private family memorial service will be held in Wisconsin, where the body was cremated. A memorial service will be held on September 17, 2005, in Cleveland. Ashes will be interred in New Cleveland Cemetery, where her second husband is buried.
"Old dancers never die, they just shuffle off!"
Kathlyn Beatrice Cockersole
"Sister" Cockersole has her dancing shoes on!
Kathlyn Beatrice Cockersole, 81, a longtime dance instructor in Cleveland, died Friday, June 24, 2005, at Sharpe Care Nursing Center in Oconto Falls, Wis. She had been ill for several years.
Mrs. Cockersole was born on June 30, 1923, to Ruth and Issac Keywood. She married James Hernden of Detroit in 1944. A career Marine, he was killed on a flying mission over North Korea in 1951 during the Korean War. Upon his death, she and the couple's two daughters moved to Cleveland where she began teaching dance in her mother's kindergarten program. In 1954, she married Alex Cockersole. The couple lived in Belzoni and Clarksdale before returning to Cleveland in 1959. He preceeded her in death in 1968.
Mrs. Cockersole, known by many of her friends as "Sister," owned and operated dance studios for more than 30 years in Belzoni, Clarksdale and Cleveland. She taught hundreds of children to dance ballet, jazz and tap. She used her dancing and choreography talents to help organize fundraising shows for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. She also choreographed performances for the community theater in Cleveland and was active in the American Legion Auxiliary in Cleveland.
She is survived by her two daughters, Durham Hernden Herzog of Gillette, Wis., and Karen Hernden Holman of Innsbrook, Mo; her younger sister, Martha Keywood Mikhailoff of Rockport, Texas; seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
A private family memorial service will be held in Wisconsin, where the body was cremated. A memorial service will be held on September 17, 2005, in Cleveland. Ashes will be interred in New Cleveland Cemetery, where her second husband is buried.
"Old dancers never die, they just shuffle off!"
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