Grace (Cook) Cook (1939)

ALLEN, BATTEN, COOK, MCCURDY

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Date: 3/1/2007 at 11:26:38

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 11, 1939

MRS. ARCHIE COOK DIES

Mrs. Archie Cook of the Ord neighborhood, died at the Winterset hospital Saturday. She was 49 years of age and formerly lived at Earlham. She had been at the hospital a week.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, October 12, 1939

Mrs. Archie E. Cook Passed Away Saturday

Mrs. Archie E. Cook passed away at the hospital in Winterset Saturday afternoon after a short illness. She was taken sick the previous Sunday with a stomach ailment and failed rapidly.

Funeral services were held Monday at the Bear Creek church.

Mrs. Cook was 48 years of age and is survived by her husband and two sons.

Grace C., daughter of Arthur and Alma Cook was born in Guthrie county, near Stuart, September 26th, 1891. Here she spent her girlhood days, attending the country school and when fourteen years of age, moved with her parents to the Bear Creek neighborhood and settled on a farm near the church.

She grew to womanhood in this community, attending school and church at Bear Creek, graduating from the Normal Training course at Earlham, and later teaching in the country schools of Dallas county.

Her mother passed away when she was 18 years of age and she being the oldest girl in the family, then had many responsibilities and duties, in helping to care for the younger brothers and sisters, all of which she so faithfully and willingly preformed.

On December 24th, 1914 she was united in marriage to Archie Cook. The young couple established a home on a farm near Spirit Lake, Iowa, later living on farms near Waukee, Bear Creek and Adel. A year ago last spring they purchased a farm near Winterset, where they were now residing.

She had already been thinking of and planning for their 25th wedding anniversary which they would have celebrated in December.

Two sons were born to Grace and Archie Cook, Robert Howard, age 15 years, and Neal Ellis, age 11 years.

She was a birthright member of the Friends church and was converted early in life, learned to love and serve her Master, always desiring to find the place of greatest service in His Kingdom.

While she had many interests outside the home, her greatest interest centered in the home, and we think of her today as an ideal home maker, a loving wife and a wonderful mother.

She had high ideals, always concerned about the better and more worthwhile things of life, and in her teachings in the home always held up the principles of right living.

Her concern for her boys was shown in her last words spoken, as she realized the end was near, she said to the ones at her bedside “Take good care of the boys.”

She had not been in the best of health for several months and became seriously ill about a week ago—and was taken to the hospital. All that skilled physicians and loving hands could do was done, but God called her to come up higher and she quietly passed away October 6, 1939 at the age of 48 years and 10 days.

During the few days of her last illness her usual Christian spirit was manifest. She expressed to her loved ones her willingness to go if it was her Master’s will.

We can not see beyond the veil and know the reason for her going while still in the prime of life but we believe, that He doeth all things well.

She leaves to mourn her passing besides her husband and two sons, six brothers and three sisters: Lloyd of Lisle, Illinois; Carl of New Virginia, Iowa; Merle of Adel, Iowa; Miles of Maxwell, Iowa; Joe of Spicer, Minnesota; Emmet of Earlham; Anna—Mrs. Orville Batten of Berkley, California; Gladys—Mrs. Stewart McCurdy of Paullina, Iowa; and Esther—Mrs. Billy Allen of Earlham, besides many other relatives and friends.