A century later, Sarah Cooper, age 4, has a headstone

Sept. 28, 2018 a group of 13 people gathered for an unveiling ceremony at Rose Hill Cemetery in Commerce City. Unlike most unveilings, Sept. 28, 2018 was not the traditional 11 months after the passing of Sarah Cooper, but 100 years. On Sept. 28, 1918, Sarah Cooper, aged just four-and-a-half, passed away from spinal cerebral meningitis. Too poor to erect a headstone, her family buried her in an unmarked plot in a section of Rose Hill with other Jewish children who suffered untimely passings. Sarah’s existence became part of distant family lore, her gravesite forgotten — until 2017. Two sisters, Bonnee Oderberg and Rhonda Shafner, both part of the Cooper clan, began to unravel Sarah’s story. It started under the Viaduct, the area where many […]