Mrs. France Wilkes Cooke
Graveside services for Mrs. Frances Wilkes Cooke, age 82, were held at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, January 25, 1991 at citizens Cemetery in Clarendon with Rev. Terry Tamplen, Pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Clarendon, officiating. Interment was in Citizens Cemetery with arrangements under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Cooke died at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 24, 1991 at her physician's office in Amarillo following a sudden illness. She was born August 31, 1908 in Bastrop, Texas and had lived in Memphis before moving to Amarillo in 1980. She married Richard Fielding Cooke on November 18, 1945 at Clarendon. She graduated from Baylor University in Waco in 1928 and was the only woman to be elected Reading Clerk in the Texas House of Representatives in Austin. She was elected in 1935 and served until 1945. She was a homemaker and a Presbyterian.
Survivors include her husband, Richard F. Cooke of Amarillo; and one cousin, Otella Lea McGaw of Austin.
The family requests that memorials be to a favorite charity.
(Published in The Clarendon News, Volume 2, Number 5, January 31, 1991, Page 3)
Graveside services for Mrs. Frances Wilkes Cooke, age 82, were held at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, January 25, 1991 at citizens Cemetery in Clarendon with Rev. Terry Tamplen, Pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Clarendon, officiating. Interment was in Citizens Cemetery with arrangements under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Cooke died at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 24, 1991 at her physician's office in Amarillo following a sudden illness. She was born August 31, 1908 in Bastrop, Texas and had lived in Memphis before moving to Amarillo in 1980. She married Richard Fielding Cooke on November 18, 1945 at Clarendon. She graduated from Baylor University in Waco in 1928 and was the only woman to be elected Reading Clerk in the Texas House of Representatives in Austin. She was elected in 1935 and served until 1945. She was a homemaker and a Presbyterian.
Survivors include her husband, Richard F. Cooke of Amarillo; and one cousin, Otella Lea McGaw of Austin.
The family requests that memorials be to a favorite charity.
(Published in The Clarendon News, Volume 2, Number 5, January 31, 1991, Page 3)
Mrs. France Wilkes Cooke
Graveside services for Mrs. Frances Wilkes Cooke, age 82, were held at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, January 25, 1991 at citizens Cemetery in Clarendon with Rev. Terry Tamplen, Pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Clarendon, officiating. Interment was in Citizens Cemetery with arrangements under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Cooke died at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 24, 1991 at her physician's office in Amarillo following a sudden illness. She was born August 31, 1908 in Bastrop, Texas and had lived in Memphis before moving to Amarillo in 1980. She married Richard Fielding Cooke on November 18, 1945 at Clarendon. She graduated from Baylor University in Waco in 1928 and was the only woman to be elected Reading Clerk in the Texas House of Representatives in Austin. She was elected in 1935 and served until 1945. She was a homemaker and a Presbyterian.
Survivors include her husband, Richard F. Cooke of Amarillo; and one cousin, Otella Lea McGaw of Austin.
The family requests that memorials be to a favorite charity.
(Published in The Clarendon News, Volume 2, Number 5, January 31, 1991, Page 3)
Graveside services for Mrs. Frances Wilkes Cooke, age 82, were held at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, January 25, 1991 at citizens Cemetery in Clarendon with Rev. Terry Tamplen, Pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Clarendon, officiating. Interment was in Citizens Cemetery with arrangements under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Cooke died at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 24, 1991 at her physician's office in Amarillo following a sudden illness. She was born August 31, 1908 in Bastrop, Texas and had lived in Memphis before moving to Amarillo in 1980. She married Richard Fielding Cooke on November 18, 1945 at Clarendon. She graduated from Baylor University in Waco in 1928 and was the only woman to be elected Reading Clerk in the Texas House of Representatives in Austin. She was elected in 1935 and served until 1945. She was a homemaker and a Presbyterian.
Survivors include her husband, Richard F. Cooke of Amarillo; and one cousin, Otella Lea McGaw of Austin.
The family requests that memorials be to a favorite charity.
(Published in The Clarendon News, Volume 2, Number 5, January 31, 1991, Page 3)
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