OBITUARY: Beverly Blanche Knowles Metzger Cook, Worth County, Iowa



              Beverly "Bev" Blanche Knowles Metzger Cook


[The Northwood Anchor online - Posted March 12, 2002 - www.northwoodanchor.com]

Beverly "Bev" Blanche Cook, 80, of Manly, died Monday, March 4, 2002, at the
Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

Funeral services were Thursday at the Bethel United Methodist Church in
Manly, with Rev. Robert Cumings officiating.  Burial will be in the Manly
Cemetery.

Beverly Blanche Knowles was born on July 13, 1921, Manly, the first child
born to Ellis and Velma (Kimmel) Knowles.  At the time of her birth, she had
nine living grandparents, two on her father's side and seven on her mother's
side.  Her birth made five generations.

Beverly attended the rural school and graduated from Manly High School in
1939.  She attended Iowa State Teacher's College in Cedar Falls, IA for a
year and taught two years in a rural school south of Manly, which was also
the first school that her mother taught.

Beverly married Edward Francis Metzger in Princeton, MO on Aug. 20, 1941.
They farmed south of Manly until his death on Nov. 29, 1969.  Beverly
worked as a secretary at Bethel United Methodist Church for about six
years prior to her husband's death.  Following Francis' death, Beverly moved
into Manly and employed at Iowa Kemper in Mason City for 11 years.  On Nov.
1, 1997, Bev married Gale Edwin Cook of Vinton, IA, at Manly, and they have
lived in Manly since that time.

Beverly has taken an active part in her church, Bethel United Methodist,
Entre Nous study club, Christian Home Builders, Worth County Historical
Society, North Iowa Genealogical Society in Mason City, Manly Senior
Citizens, the Camera Club, study club, and the DAR of Mason City.

Bev is survived by her husband, Gale Cook, of Manly; her children, Raymond
Edward (Rick) Metzger and his wife Delores of Manly, Racinda Alice (Cindi)
Metzger of Atlantic, IA, Ranita Frances DeRocher and her husband Ron of
Westfield, IA; grandchildren, Cassie Jo and Cory Francis DeRocher of
Westfield, IA and Sandra Steele and her two daughters, Jennifer and
Melanie of Glenwood, IA; brother, Robert Knowles of Manly; step-daughter,
Carol Patterson and her husband Kenneth of Lafayette, IN; three step-
grandchildren, Scott Patterson and his wife, Toni of Fort Sill, OK, Bret
Patterson and his wife, Heather of Lafayette, IN, and Krista Minton and
her husband Troy of Fort Wayne, IN and three step-great grandsons; two
nieces, Rebecca Real and her husband Kevin of Plymouth, MN, and Roxanne
Knowles of Ames, and nephew, Phillip Metzger and his wife Kathy of Belvedere,
IL; as well as other relatives and many friends.

Her parents, her first husband, Francis Metzger, her granddaughter, Callie
Marie DeRocher and her sister, Lola Mae Knowles, preceded Beverly in death.




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
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