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Katharine Cooper
Katharine Cooper was a wife, mother, teacher and trailblazer – licensed as the first Black person to open and operate a nursery school in Kansas City, Missouri.
After a life of giving to others, breaking barriers and shaping young minds, her gift of life-enhancing tissue was in line with the way she lived.