Mary "Luella" Cook 1914 - 2011

COOK, BETTS, DURST

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/28/2014 at 13:35:41

Sioux City Journal
2 September 2011

- Mary "Luella" Cook, 97, of Cherokee passed away Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, at Countryside Estates in Cherokee.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee. The Rev. Ronald Kitterman will officiate. Burial will be in Grant Township Cemetery near Rodney, Iowa. A family prayer service will be 1:45 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Visitation will be 1 to 9 p.m. today, with the family present 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the funeral home.

Luella was born Feb. 9, 1914, at Grant Center, Iowa, to Hugh and Anna (Betts) Durst. She graduated from Central High School in Sioux City in 1932. She was married to Alva Cook on Nov. 2, 1938, at Sioux City. She had worked for the Milwaukee Railroad Depot in Sioux City and at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute for 18 years, retiring in 1972. She had lived in Rodney and Sioux City and in Cherokee since 1954. She was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church. She enjoyed ballroom dancing, crocheting, playing cards and games and going to the casino. She had been a resident of Country Side Estates in Cherokee for the last 7 1/2 years.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, on Jan. 30, 2004; a grandson, John Bradstreet; a brother, Raymond, and two brothers in infancy; and a daughter-in-law, Sandra Cook.

She is survived by one son, Jerry Cook of Spirit Lake, Iowa; one daughter, Carol Bradstreet and her husband, Harry, of Cherokee; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; two brothers-in-law, Clifford Cook of Havelock, Iowa, and Dale Cook of Warrensburg, Mo.; and several nieces and nephews.

The family would like to give special thanks to Country Side Estates for their compassionate loving care for the past 7 1/2 years.

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