County Employee Dies; Rites Friday

Funeral services for Lee Cook, employee of the county for the last twelve years and resident of Farmers Branch for thirty-seven years, will be held Friday at 10 a.m. in the Farmers Branch Baptist Church, of which he is a member.
Cook was an employee of Commissioners District No. 1.  Prior to working for the county he was a farmer.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. G. H. Pierce and Mrs. Homer Summer, Dallas; four sons, Hubert Cook, Richardson; Homer Cook, Dallas; Sgt. Arthur Cook, Army, Sioux Falls, SD; Pfc. James Cook, England; two sisters, Mrs. Ola Saunders, Dallas, and Mrs. Ed Welch Handley.
Pallbearers will be George W. Rasberry, Will P. Echols, Jeff F. Willingham, S.C. Moody, Delbert D. Moore, Marcus W. Morris. The Rev. G. B. Bailey, pastor of the Farmers Branch Baptist Church, assisted by the Rev. H. G. Wiens, pastor of the Addison Baptist Church, will officiate at funeral services. Burial will be in the Farmers Branch Cemetery.

Dallas Morning News - Dec 15, 1944
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

Cook - Green Lee, age 57, Farmers Branch, died Wednesday. lifetime resident of Texas. Survived by wife, Mrs. Luella Cook, Farmers Branch; two daughters, Mrs. Inez Pierce, Mrs. Elizabeth Summer, Dallas; four sons, Hubert, Richardson, Homer, Dallas; Sgt. Arthur Cook and Pfc. James Cook, U.S. Army; six grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Ola Saunders, Dallas; Mrs. Ada Welch, Handley, Services Friday 10 a.m., Farmers Branch Baptist Church. Rev. G. B. Bailey and Rev. H. G. Wiens officiating. Interment Farmers Branch Cemetery. Pallbearers: George Rasbury, Will Echols, Jesse Willingham, C. S. Moody, Delbert Moore, Marcus Morris, Arrangements Guardian Funeral Home.

Dallas Morning News - Dec 14, 1944
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

COOK
LOUELLA - 1888 - 1984
GREEN LEE - 1887 - 1944

Keenan Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas Co., Texas