Former state legislator Mary K. Schwope died Tuesday in Wheatland at the age of 94. Schwope was a native of Rock Springs and a Democrat. She served in the Wyoming House of Representatives from 1975 to 1991. She sponsored bills on hunter safety, charity pull tabs and snowmobile registration fees for trail grooming. She also sponsored legislation requested by law enforcement and by veterans for license plates and for Vietnam veteran tuition at the University of Wyoming, along with the establishment of the Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery. Schwope was named the 2000 Wyoming Woman of Distinction by the Wyoming Women's Council. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Wheatland . Burial will take place later in the veterans' cemetery in Casper.
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