Ionia-Ingham County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cook, Richard O. February 1972 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net June 13, 2010, 8:29 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, March 1, 1972 Richard O. Cook, 44, of Lansing died Monday night in a Lansing hospital after being there three weeks. He was born in Ionia February 7, 1928, the son of Otis F. and Lila Cook and spent his early years here. He graduated form University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and served as a lieutenant in World War II. He was with the Michigan Retailers association as executive vice president. In 1954 he married Kathryn Gingrich Johnson and she survives as do a stepdaughter, Cheryl Johnson of Leroy; mother, Mrs. Otis F. Cook of Lansing; sister, Mrs. Jane Otto of Birmingham and relatives in Ionia. Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at St. Paul Episcopal church at 220 West Ottawa, Lansing. Arrangements were made by Estes, Leadley funeral home in Lansing. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/cook5508nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb