Mrs. Rose Cook (-1936)

COOK, SMITH, HANDSAKER, SHAFFER

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 3/15/2009 at 14:04:43

AMES DAILY TRIBUNE AND TIMES, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Saturday, April 11, 1936.

ROSE COOK, NEVADA PIONEER, IS DEAD

NEVADA—Funeral services for Mrs. Rose Cook, 87, one of the oldest pioneer women in the community, who died Thursday afternoon will be held Sunday afternoon. Short services will be held at 2 o'clock from the home and at 2:30 from the Methodist church. Burial will be in the Nevada cemetery.

Mrs. Cook had been ill with pneumonia for 10 days. She was a widow of the late Michael Cook, pioneer Richland township farmer, and had lived in Story county for more than 60 years.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Smith of Ames, Mrs. Emma Handsaker, who had been assisting in the care of her mother, and Mrs. Vernie Shaffer of Colo and two sons, Orville Cook at home and Frank Cook of near Zearing.