Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for: Marion Park Cook
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Submitted by: Bill Cook Email: billcook44@aol.com
Date: 7/13/2002 to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
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Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, billcook44@aol.com
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This obit was printed in the Ponca City Newspaper, in January of 1969.
I have added and corrected information that was or should have been
included, Bill Cook, 7/13/2002

ARMY SERGEANT DIES IN JAPAN

SFC Marion P. Cook who was stationed in Japan with the U.S. Armed Forces
died Tuesday of pnuemonia, according word received here. 
(Actually the hospital punctured an artery while trying to relieve him choking 
from a toothpick in a piece of Cake he had swallowed)

Marion was born in Tahlequah, Cherokee Co. OK., May 26, 1939 to Samuel Wilbur
and Rosa Hancock) Cook. The family moved to Stillwater, Payne Co. OK in about 
1943.

Marion attended all of his schooling in Stillwater, Payne Co. OK. and lived 
there until he went into the Air Force in 1957.

Marion had been in the Armed Forces 11 years, with 21 months of that time in
Vietnam, three years in Italy, and a previous three years in Japan. Sergeant
Cook had been stationed in Japan 13 months prior to his death on this tour of
duty.

Surviving him are his wife Beverly (Porter) and children Leah Rinalda Cook (now 
Blevins) age 3, and son Harold Dean Cook (Now Brown) 22 months of age, who are 
presently living in Japan with Marion, his mother Rosa (Hancock) Cook of Ponca 
City, OK. three sisters, Mrs. Vivian Sims Akins, of Enid OK., Ruth Ann White of 
Sylmar, California, and Mrs. Betty Tautfest of Ponca City, OK and six brothers, 
Sam W. Cook, Jr. of Miami, OK, Murriel Leo Cook of Louisville, KY., Sgt. Donald 
Rae Cook of Ft. Leonardwood Missouri, Carl Eugene Cook of Stillwater, presently 
in Louisville, KY. William Arthur "Bill" Cook of Carson City, Nevada (the obit 
said Colorado)and Charles Luther Cook of Stillwater Ok., currently in Germany 
with the US Army.

Marion was buried at Fort Gibson National Military cemetery, in Fort Gibson, OK. 
with full military honors.

To view more on these families go to:
http://members.aol.com/wcook14024/cook.html

Bill Cook, 7/13/2002