Lucretia Phillbrick Cook
COOK, PHILLBRICK, HAINES, MOCK, BARTLETT, GREEN, WILKERSON, SHAMBAUGH, MEYERS, HUNNICUTT
Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 5/12/2006 at 16:02:01
Winterset Madisonian
August 29, 1945MRS. LUCRETIA COOK OF EARLHAM PASSES
Mrs. Lucretia Cook, a life-long resident of Madison county, and a widely-known citizen of Earlham for many years, died last Saturday at the Peterson Nursing home in Winterset. She was 87 years old.
Mrs. Cook was the former Lucretia Phillbrick, and she was born in Winterset.
Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Friends church at Earlham, and burial was made in the cemetery there.
---------------------Dexter Library Obituary Collection
Dexter, IowaMrs. D. B. Cook, 87 Died at Winterset Saturday
Lucretia Jane Cook, daughter of David M. and Drusilla R. Philbrick, was born October 5, 1857 in Winterset, Iowa. When 28 years of age she was married to Mr. Z. S. Haines on November 5, 1885, in the same house in which she was born. To this union one son was born.
Soon after marriage they moved to a farm six miles west of Winterset, where they lived for seven years. They then moved back to Winterset and lived there till 1910 when they moved to Earlham, which was to be their future home—with the exception of two years spent in Afton.
Their son, Delwyn, after living in very poor health for 33 years, died in 1921. A few years later Mr. Haines suffered a severe stroke, living but three years thereafter. His death occurred in 1925.
In 1927 Lucretia Haines was married to Mr. D. B. Cook of Earlham. They had enjoyed but nine years of wedded life when he was called away in 1936. Mrs. Cook remained in the former home until October 13, 1944. She spent the next few months in the Hadley-Maxwell home, where on May 28, 1945 she suffered a stroke. She passed to her reward in a nursing home in Winterset, August 25, 1945, at the age of 87 years, 10 months and 20 days.
Among those she leaves to mourn her passing are five nieces: Mrs. Gertrude Mock of New Milford, Conn.; Miss Ruth Bartlett of Dallas, Texas; Mrs. Mary Green of Glendale, California; Mrs. Phil Wilkerson and Mrs. Carrie Shambaugh of Winterset; and one grand niece, Mrs. Alvin Meyers of Van Meter, in all of whom she found much comfort in her declining years. She also leaves one step-daughter, Mrs. Hal Hunnicutt of Des Moines.
In early childhood she joined the Christian church of Winterset, where she retained her membership until she moved to Earlham, and united with the Friends church.
Throughout her long life her interests centered around her home, her church and the work of the W.C.T.U.
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