Cook, Ella Mae Dooley – 1868-1941

CHENOWETH, COOK, DOOLEY, GUESSFORD, VANDER POL, VERWERS

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 3/3/2024 at 11:48:32

Mrs. Cook Dies Tuesday
Rites for 72-Year-Old Life-Long County Resident To Be Friday
Mrs. Ella Mae Cook, 72, an invalid for the past 15 years, died Tuesday evening about 11:30 o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Vander Pol, two miles south of the Pleasantview church. She had made her home with her daughter for the past 13 years.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Murdoch Funeral home by the Rev. R. V. Pike of Killduff. Burial will be in the Mount Zion cemetery.
Mrs. Cook fell in 1925 and fractured her hip. Since that time she has had to walk with the aid of crutches. For the past five years she had been in failing health because of a kidney ailment and four weeks ago her condition became serious.
Daughter of George and Mary Chenoweth (Dooley), she was born in Jasper county, Dec. 7, 1868, one of a family of 11 children.
Preceding her in death were a son, Clarence William, her parents, four sisters and four brothers.
She had spent her entire life in Jasper county.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. H. Vander Pol, three grandchildren, Mrs. Raymond Verwers of Kellogg, Earl Cook and Beverly Vander Pol, both of Newton, Ia., and six great-grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. George Guessford and one brother, John Dooley, both of Newton, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Source: Newton (IA) Daily News; Wednesday, January 15, 1941, page 1

Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Mae Cook, 72, were conducted at the Murdoch Funeral home Friday afternoon by the Rev. R. V. Pike of Killduff. Interment was in the Mount Zion cemetery.
Pallbearers ere George Pink, Will Pink, C. V. Waring, Glen Ryther of Newton, C. Van Emmerick of Lynnville and James Samson of Killduff.
Music was furnished by Mrs. Isaac Welle, Dorothy Van Baren, James Van Baren and Emmett Van Dalen, who sang “Sometime We’ll Understand”, “Beautiful Isle of somewhere” and “Shall We Gather at the River”. Mrs. R. L. Jackson was at the organ.
Flowers were handled by Mrs. Walter Bishop and Mrs. George Pink.
Ella Mae Dooley, daughter of George and Mary Chenoweth Dooley, was born in Jasper county, Dec. 7, 1868, one of a family of 11 children.
She had spent her entire life in Jasper county. For the past 13 years she had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Vander Pol, who lives two miles south of the Pleasantview church. Fifteen years ago she fell and broke her hip and since that time had to walk with the aid of crutches. For the past five years she had been in ailing health because of a kidney ailment.
Preceding her in death were a son, Clarence, her parents and four sisters and four brothers.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. H. Vander Pol, three grandchildren, Mrs. Raymond Verwers of Kellogg, Earl Cook and Beverly Vander Pol, both of Newton, Ia., and six great-grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. George Guessford and one brother, John Dooley, both of Newton, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Source: Newton (IA) Daily News; Tuesday, January 21, 1941, page 7