2026 SESSION
INTRODUCED
26109601D
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 387
Offered March 10, 2026
Celebrating the life of Bettie Minette Cooper.
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Patron—Hernandez
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WHEREAS, Bettie Minette Cooper, a passionate advocate for the arts and transformative civic leader whose service to the Hampton Roads Region spanned more than 60 years, died on October 14, 2025; and
WHEREAS, Minette Cooper was born in New York City and began to cultivate her lifelong love of music, the arts, and community service from a young age; and
WHEREAS, Minette Cooper spent part of her youth in Mississippi before returning to New York to attend the Knox School, then continued her education at Smith College in Massachusetts and subsequently earned a degree in musicology from Barnard College in New York; and