ObituaryJohnnye Louise Cope
Submitted on Saturday, December 22, 2012
Johnnye Louise Cope (’45), Librarian Emeritus, died Oct. 5 in San Angelo. She was
born in Paint Rock and graduated from North Texas in 1945 with a bachelor’s degree
in English (pictured as a student in 1943). She earned master’s degrees in English
and library science from Ohio State University and the University of Michigan, respectively,
and returned to UNT as a reference librarian in 1966. She served as head of the humanities
reference department, retiring in 1988, and was granted emeritus status by the Board
of Regents. She also had served as the reference and humanities librarian at Trinity
University in San Antonio, Her friends say they will remember her for her “gracious
nature, her love of literature and her wonderful wit.”