COOK, Benjamin F. 1910-1977

COOK, WHITE, SCOTT, VOSS

Posted By: N. L. (email)
Date: 7/21/2002 at 07:45:39

Benjamin F. Cook, 66, 2329 Dunham St., Clinton, Died Wednesday at Jane Lamb Hospital, Clinton after a lengthy illness.

The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Snell-Zorning Funeral Home. The Rev. Bernard Miars of St. John's Episcopal Church, will officiate.

Pallbearers will be Otto Schollenbrunch, Cecil and Carl Johnson, Maurice Borgman, Lester Brandenburg and Jack Armstrong.

Visitation will be from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Friday.

He was born Dec. 6, 1910, in Clinton to Charles and Edna White Cook. He married Helen Voss May 17, 1968, in Sterling, Ill. Mr. Cook was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church. He was a life-long resident of Clinton, and was employed by Climax Engines, where he worked from 1958 until retiring in 1972. He was a crane operator in the foundry.

Survivors include his widow and a sister, Mrs. William (Vera) Scott, St. Paul, Minn.

He was preceded in death by two brothers and a sister.

1977