Ernestine Cooper, former employee of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, died July 9 at Chestnut Hill Hospital. She was 95.

She was born in Asheville, North Carolina. After moving to South Philadelphia as a child, she attended Philadelphia public schools, graduating from South Philadelphia High School. Ms. Cooper began as a temporary employee in surgery at the Vet School in 1975, then moved that same year to the School of Engineering as a project budget assistant. In 1982, she returned to the Vet School as a fiscal coordinator, and she remained there until she retired in 1989.

Ms. Cooper is survived by her daughter, Joyce F. Matthews; grandson, Christopher B. Crawley; brother, John Sharp; cousin, Claudette Davis; and other relatives and friends.