Biography: Mary Doris Coulter, 94, of Little Rock died September 24, 2017. She was born August 11, 1923 in Little Rock to Mary Emma Cheatham Coulter and Boone Tatum Coulter. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1966, a Master of Arts in English Literature in 1973 and a PhD in English Literature in 1982 from George Washington University. She went on to teach in the public schools in the District of Columbia. After she retired from a respected teaching career, she returned to Little Rock. Dr. Coulter traveled extensively throughout Europe and Africa during her retirement. She was preceded in death by her parents, son Jess Ralph Nickols, daughter Margaret Jane Nickols Webb, Jr., and granddaughter Wendy Katherine Nickols Johnson. She is survived by her grandchildren Michael David Nickols, Matthew Stephen Webb, Sarah Elizabeth Webb Holsapple, Andrew Coulter Webb, and Thomas Edward Webb; daughter-n-law Dr. Stacy Rudnicki; great-grandchildren Emma Nicole Johnson, Webb Curtis Holsapple, Boone Coulter Webb, Maggie Jane Holsapple, Cooper Wells Johnson and Liam Michael Webb. Arrangements are under the direction of Ruebel Funeral Home, www.ruebelfuneralhome.com Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free. -Sara Teasdale