During Denton Cooley’s funeral, in November, many of the people gathered at Trinity Episcopal Church were likely thinking how much better it would have been if he had been there. So many of his pals and admirers from Houston’s glory days were present—Lynn Wyatt, Joanne Herring, James Baker, and 41 himself, who was wheeled in after the service began and wheeled out shortly before it ended, with that classic, Bush-like over-the-top politesse that locals have come to know so well. An enormous arrangement of white roses and hydrangeas tamed in the shape of the Texas Heart Institute’s logo was an expansive, affectionate touch. But even as the sun came out on an initially gloomy day and streamed through Trinity’s stained-glass windows, any longtime Houstonian knew…The post Denton A. Cooley, 1920-2016 appeared first on Texas Monthly.