| Since the death date was not given the newspaper article date was used. Published in the Pilot-Tribune December 1, 1955
MARY COOK IS DEAD, AGE 82 - Onetime Band and County Employed Dies; Rites Held This Morning
Miss Mary Cook, 82, lifetime Blairite and formerly active in business and government field here, died early Tuesday at Blair Hospital. Resident of the Crowell Home for the past year, she had suffered a stroke on Thanksgiving Day while a guest in Omaha at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. William Cook.
The body is now at the Campbell Mortuary here. Funeral rites will be held at 10 a.m. today (Thursday) at the Congregational Church, of which she had long been a member. Officiating will be the Rev. Donald Scheuer, pastor, and burial will be in Blair Cemetery.
Miss Cook, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joe S. Cook, who came to Washington County in 1868 and moved into Blair in 1879, was born in 1873. Her father was long a county official.
Miss Cook entered the employ of the Banking House of A. Castetter, on the site of the present Washington County Bank, around 1900 and served as a bank staff member for almost a quarter of a century. Later she also served as a deputy county clerk under the administration of her sister, the late Mrs. Annie C. Martin.
She resided on West Colfax St. before moving to the Crowell Home in 1954.
Surviving Miss Cook are her sister-in-law, Mrs. William Cook of Omaha, and a number of nephews and nieces.
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