John Cook

JOHN COOK RITES

Graveside rites will be at 3 p.m. Monday at Woodlawn Cemetery for John D. Cook, 48, a native of Champaign, who died Thursday (May 8, 1958) at Wood River, where he had been living for three years. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Marks Funeral Home, Wood River. Rev. Manley Mace, pastor of the first Methodist Church, in Wood River, will officiate. Mr. Cook was born Oct. 2, 1909 in Champaign, son of William F. and Goldie Clary Cook. Before moving to Wood River, Mr. Cook had lived in Springfield. He is survived by a brother, William, Rosewood Heights, and a sister, Mrs. Joseph R. (Barbara) Powell, Hollister, Calif.

We had just moved to Hollister and my sister was still living in Wood River in our house which hadn't sold yet with her husband. My uncle John had come to live with them because of his health. My sister found him in bed the next morning, he had died in his sleep. She had to get the Hollister police to go to our house because we didn't have a phone yet. It is vivid in my memory, I was 8 years old.

Submitted by Linda Garrett