Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cook (Lincoln), Blanche 1952 ************************************************ 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 April 10, 2011, 6:00 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Tuesday, February 19, 1952 Mrs. Blanche Lincoln Cook, 77, Ionia businesswoman for a number of years, died Sunday, February 17, at the home of her niece, Mrs. Andrew Laird, of Dearborn following a heart attack which occurred earlier that day while she was in church. She was born February 4, 1875 in Pennsylvania and moved to Belding at the age of seventeen. She was married in Belding to F. D. Lincoln and they operated the Lincoln shop in Belding. He died in 1917. In 1932 she married Henry J. Cook, former Ionia county sheriff. They lived in Belding and operated the store until 1937 when they sold out and moved to Ionia. Here they established the Lincoln shop and operated it together. He preceded her in death in 1947. She continued the management of her shop until May, 1951, when ill health forced her to sell out. The shop is now known as Harriette’s. When she sold out she went to Gladwin to make her home with a sister, Mrs. John Coon. Mrs. Coon is now in Florida and Mrs. Cook has been visiting a niece during her absence. Surviving are the sister, Mrs. Coon; two step-daughters, Mrs. Gerald Robinson and Mrs. George Banhagal of Ionia, four step-sons, Ora Cook of California, Otis Cook of Lansing, Millard Cook of Washington, D.C., and Holden Cook of Ionia; and two nieces. The body arrived at the Stone Kauffman funeral home Tuesday noon. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Their arrangements await the arrival of the sister from a Florida trip. During her Ionia residence, she was a member of the First Christian church, the O.E.S., the White Shrine of Jerusalem and the Ionia Business and Professional Women’s club. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/cooklinc11286nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb