Dorothy Ann Schoeps, nee Sturdivant, 76, died peacefully in her sleep at home on January 3, 2017 after a long illness.

A Memorial Reception will be held from 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 21, 2017 at Renner-Wikoff Chapel & Crematory in Urbana.

Dorothy was born on March 26, 1940 in Corinth, Mississippi, as the only child of Powhatan and Lorene Sturdivant.

She attended Auburn University, Auburn AL, and she graduated with a degree in English and Art History from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS, where she met her husband Karl-Heinz Schoeps. They got married in August 1965 in Danforth Chapel on the campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Afterwards they lived together in Wuppertal, Germany, for two years where her husband taught at a "Gymnasium" (equivalent to high school plus some College), then for four years in Madison, WI where he earned his PhD at the University of Wisconsin and then for 45 plus years in Urbana, IL where he was a professor of German at the University of Illinois until his retirement in the year 2000. In Madison Dorothy worked for the Assistant Vice President for Finance for three years. In Urbana she was, for nine years, the secretary of Professor Albert Wattenberg, Principal Investigator of the High Energy Group in the Department of Physics and was also the secretary to the other members of that group, at the University of Illinois where she and her husband met and became life-long friends with some members of that group. She also worked for a year or two as secretary for Professor David Kuck, Director of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University of Illinois.

Her parents preceded her in death. Two aunts, several cousins, and her husband survive her.

Memorial Contributions may be made in Dorothy's honor to Champaign County Humane Society, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts or to Illinois Public Media (WILL).