COOK, John Benton

COOK, HASSING, FLINT, LESTER, POLING

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 8/21/2021 at 06:07:07

JOHN BENTON COOK

Services were Tuesday at Aurora-Chase Mortuary for John Benton Cook, a retired Army major and first superintendent of the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel. There was cremation.

Cook, 65,of 12070 E. Maple Ave., Aurora, died April 8 at his home after a long illness.

He was born Dec. 4, 1916, in Pittsburg, Iowa and was educated in Iowa. He and Vera M. Hassing were married in 1942 at Fort Chaffee, Ark.

Cook retried(sp) from the Army in 1954 after 20 years of service. He served in France, Germany and Puerto Rico and was awarded a Bronze Star. He then was an engineer for the Colorado Department of Highways for 20 years, serving as superintendent of the Eisenhower Tunnel until he retired from the highway department in 1977.

A resident of Aurora since 1954, he was a member of the Colorado Society of Engineers, Fitzsimmons Officer club and the Retired Officers Association.

Survivors include uhis(sp) wife; two daughters, Barbara Ann Flint, Colorado Springs, and Cheryl Sue Lester, Brussels, Begium; a son, John b. Jr., Vallejo, Calif. a sister, Mayme Poling Keosauqua, Iowa and four grandchildren.

Source: "Scrapbook 1981 - 1985", Pg. 97,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA