Anna Cook

COOK, STRATTON, HOSKINS

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 8/1/2018 at 08:31:36

10 January 1924 - West Branch Times

Mrs. Anna Stratton Cook departed this life on New Year's morning, Jan. 1, 1924, after a prolonged illness, at Oskaloosa, Iowa. She was aged 52 years, 1 month and 7 days. The funeral was held Thursday morning at the College Avenue Friends church, where she was a member and one of the overseers. The services were conducted by Charles O. Whitely, the Yearly Meeting Superintendent, assisted by the pastor, H. C. Bedford. The husband J. H. Cook, a brother of I. W. Cook and Mrs. Hazel Hoskins, passed away in 1910. The children are four sons, Clifford, Willard, Roscoe and Walter; and one daughter, Eloise.

The deceased was a daughter of John and Priscilla Stratton, the former now not living, and was born at Barnesville, Ohio. There are two brothers, Ross and Charles Stratton. The mother and sons; also Mrs. Chas. Stratton, all of West Branch, were among those attending the funeral.

Left alone with responsibilities and cares incident to rearing a family of little children, naturally there were years devoted to arduous tasks, burdens that would have discouraged and disheartened one of less resolute will and determination. These experiences finally had their effect and a weakened physical condition eventually followed. For nearly two years the departed struggled against the odds of failing health, cheerfully hoping always that she might be spared to again help make a home for her family. Favorable conditions and the best of care, however, were all of no avail.

Throughout the entire span, hers was a vigorous role, a life of effort and unusual endeavor. In girlhood she pioneered with her parents in Kansas. She taught school there, and later in eastern Iowa, under the more rigorous regime of perhaps thirty years ago. These experiences along with an abiding faith, were the foundation that anchored her firmly against many an untoward circumstances of later life. Whatever came she was disposed to look on the bright side.