A little while later he met Trudy B. Presidents such as John F Kennedy heaped praise on the spacemen and queued up to be pictured with them and their wives. Sponsored by Ancestry.com. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. For me, it was a snap. She found her true calling (and a use for all those languages) in teaching. You may request to transfer up to 250,000 memorials managed by Find a Grave. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Failed to delete memorial. Koppel spells out a few basic Nasa rules: Feed him well. Trudie's obituary. Trudy was born to Robert & Gloria (Powers) Olsen on November 12, 1965. Trudy Cooper left her husband Gordon for him being unfaithful months before Project Mercury had even been launched. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. ", In orbit, he radioed back in his Oklahoma twang, "Boy, this is wonderful. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Failed to report flower. Mr. Cooper's death leaves three of the original seven astronauts still living, John H. Glenn Jr., the former senator from Ohio; Walter M. Schirra Jr.; and M. Scott Carpenter. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. [4] According to Tom Wolfe, the author of the 1979 book The Right Stuff, NASA marketed the astronaut wives as "seven flawless cameo-faced dolls sitting in the family room with their pageboy bobs in place, ready to offer any and all aid to the brave lads". He was not the first American to fly into space twice; that was Virgil I. Grissom. Andrew Fisher, who murdered his wife in 1990, died on Friday following a battle with dementia. Despite Trudy having left Gordo, she reunited with him so he could get .