LAKE COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: Charles B. COOK (d. 1943)
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From the Ashtabula Tribune, Ashtabula County, OH, 6 Jan. 1943

              Charles Cook, 77, Ex-Prosecutor, Dies

  Charles B. Cook, 77, prominent city attorney and widely known as 
county prosecutor from 1924 to 1928, died at 1 a.m. today at his home, 
306 W. 53rd Street, after a lingering illness.

  Born in Painesville, August 1, 1865. Mr. Cook came to Ashtabula from 
Youngstown. besides his county office, he served on the city council 
from 1902 to 1906.

  He was a member of the county Bar Association, being admitted to the 
bar in Youngstown in 1911. He also belonged to the Methodist Church, 
Rising Sun Lodge 22, F. and A. M., Eastern Star Lodge and the Grange. 
He was a past high priest of Western Reserve Chapter. Other 
affiliations were with the K. of P. and Elks, and Knights Malta.

  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alice B. Cook; three sons, Blake of 
Kent, Earl of Toledo, and Floyd of Columbus, a daughter Mrs. Grace 
Morrow of Kent, and two grandchildren. There are also six stepchildren, 
Mrs. Hazel Harber, Youngstown, Mrs. Esther Hunt, Cincinnati,  Mrs. H. 
P. Stevens, Akron, Mrs. Helen Sullivan, Murfreesboro, Tenn., Mrs. 
Elwood Sherman, Bellvue, Kentucky and Donald Halter, Akron.

  Funeral services will be at the Leo. D. Brown Funeral Home at 2 p.m. 
Friday, Rev. Herbert White of the First Methodist Church officiating. 
Burial will be in Perry Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home 
Thursday night.