ID: I7609
Name: Amy A. Hooper
Sex: F
Birth: 20 AUG 1883 in Whitman Co., Washington
Note: b. on the Ranch homesteaded by her father, Miles T. Hooper (in 1878)
Death: 2 FEB 1977 in Spokane, Spokane Co., Washington
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery
ALIA: Amy Woodward Fisher
Note: after Jack died . . . Amy married someone named fisher . . . perhaps a poet?? according to Agnes Baker Brown Warren. Poet Succumbs at 93 Services will be Monday at 1 at Hazen & Jaeger's for Amy Woodward Fisher, who died Wednesday at her home. She was 93. An award-winning poet and prose writer, Mrs. Fisher was a member of the Spokane Chapter of Composers, Authors and Artists of America, Poetry Scribes of Spokane and the Spokane Branch of National League of American Pen Women. She was also a member of the Spokane Valley Women's Club, and the Orchard Avenue Women's Club, as well as Lilly Chapter 27, Order of Eastern Star in Genesee, Idaho. The author of four books, three volumes of poetry and an historical novel, Mrs. Fisher had served as chairman of the Washington State Poetry Day since 1953. She is survived by three daughters, Patricia Woodward, at the home N3015 Park Road, Bonnie Faires, Boise, Idaho, and Thelma Kidd, Rialto, Calif.; one stepson, Ernest Fisher, Spokane, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Burial will be at Greenwood.
Amy Woodward Fisher From Red Fir Farm, a two-hundred-acre grain ranch near Moscow, Idaho, Amy Woodward Fisher and her husband moved recently to Spokane, Washington where they named their new home "Paradise Acre" When Mrs. Fisher was a resident of Idaho she was associated with the Idaho Writers' League, the Idaho Press Women, and was poetry chairman of the Idaho Federation of Women's Clubs. These interests have been renewed in Washington where she is vice -president of Spokane Poetry Scribes, and chairman of Washington's chapter of Composers and Authors of America. Her parents were Washington pioneers, the state where she was born. Idaho was her home for many years and there her three daughters were born and grew to young womanhood. The winner of many poetry prizes, Eugene Field and Mark Twain certificates for literary honors, Amy Woodward Fisher has published both short stories and poetry in various periodicals. Not long ago she won a national short story contest sponsored b y the Seattle Times. She is the author of three volumes of verse: COLORED LEAVES, TWO STARS IN A WINDOW, and THE SEVENTH HILL, all published by the Caxton Printer, Ltd.
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Change Date: 27 AUG 2004
Father: Miles T. Hooper b: 1847 in Indiana
Mother: Mary E. B. [Hooper] b: in Indiana
Marriage 1
William D. "Jack" Woodward b: 27 JAN 1872 in Greene Co., Missouri
Children
Thelma Olive Woodward b: 9 FEB 1909 in Washington State Bonnie Bartlet Woodward b: 23 MAY 1913 in Washington State Patricia V. Woodward b: 10 MAR 1916 in Idaho Marriage 2
Emil Fisher b: 6 JAN 1877 in Iowa | |