Huckleberries: She shattered glass ceilings with her typewriter
Frances Cope (Johnson) in retirement.
Photo courtesy of the Coeur d'Alene Press archives
Frances Cope (seated left) with her Coeur d’Alene Press staff.
Ballerina Valleda Ingram.
Coeur d’Alene Golf Course pro John Woodhall shows wife, Valleda, how to golf.
John Ruthven and his world-record sunflowers.
Beverly Hagadone.
Marilyn Stewart (front), the first Miss Coeur d’Alene, is shown with other contestants.
Black-eyed 1964 Barry Goldwater staffers in the local office were (from left): Mrs. Ira Robson, Mrs. Robert Schroeder, Mrs. M.J. Huetter and Mrs. Carter Crimp.
Paul Burke, Hagadone Newspapers advertising director, after his kidney removal at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
Frances Cope wrote reams of copy during her 44 years as a Coeur d’Alene Press reporter, columnist and editor.
But one story stood out from the rest.
In the early 1950s, on a cold March night, she was called to a fatal train wreck at Granite near the Bonner County line. The train was halfway in the river. And two trainmen were dead.
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