- Date Of Birth: October 8, 1920
- Date Of Death: June 2, 2017
- State: Colorado
Cornelia Jane “Teeny” Humphres died on June 2, 2017 in Wheatridge, Colorado. She was born on a wheat ranch near Milton-Freewater, Oregon on October 8, 1920 to Mildred Ione Cockburn (née Nettleship) and George Samuel “Doc” Cockburn. Teeny was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, one sister and two step-brothers. She was widowed twice at the deaths of her husbands, Ronald Wesley Beaty and Herbert William Humphres. Teeny is survived by two children, Jon Beaty of Seattle, WA and Jane McNellis-Wilson of Lakewood, CO and three step-children, Catherine Johnson (Tacoma, WA), Patrick Humphres (Puyallup, WA) and William Humphres (Marysville, WA). She is survived also by three grandchildren, Kate Green (Morrison, CO), Emily Kotas (Lakewood, CO) and Diana Cone (Oregon City, OR) and four great-grandchildren, Hazel Cone, Ava Green, Sam Kotas and Haldon Cushing. Teeny attended Mcloughlin High School in Milton-Freewater, OR and Oregon State College (now University) in Corvallis. At OSC, she studied Home Economics and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority. After college, she moved to Yakima, WA and worked as a traffic manager at a radio station. It was there, in 1943, that she met her first husband, Wes Beaty, who was engaged in US Army training maneuvers nearby and they married shortly thereafter. After World War II, Wes’ work took them to Yakima, Walla Walla and Olympia, WA, Aurora, IL and Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Teeny worked for several years as an administrative assistant in the Office of the Dean of Students at Aurora College. She was an avid golfer into her ninth decade of life. An amazing gourmet cook, she was well-known for her exquisite dinner parties and she hosted in her home business leaders and government officials, professional associates of her husband, Wes. Teeny was a fine needle worker and gardener; as she would say, her beautiful roses bloomed their hearts out for her. She loved international travel.
