Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Joe Cook
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   COOK
   HOLDENVILLE - Joe COOK was born February 27, 1914, in Hughes County
   north of Holdenville. He died in April 1993 in the Creek Nation
   Community Hospital. Funeral services were held April 8 in the Hudson
   Funeral Home Chapel. Burial was in the Harjo family cemetery.
   He lived in the Holdenville area, attended Friendship School and
   Euchee Mission Boarding School. He served in the U.S. Army in the
   south Pacific during World War II. He was a member of the Tuckabatchee
   Ceremonial Ground and the America Legion.
   He was the son of Daniel and Molly COOK, both deceased. He also was
   preceded in death by a sister, Josphine FACTOR. He was married to
   Helen HARJO in March of 1950. She survives. He is also survived by his
   three sons, Ernest COOK and Alan COOK, both of Holdenville, and Donald
   COOK of Wewoka; his five daughters, Carolyn CLAY of Holdenville,
   Evelyn COOK of Norman, Brenda TEEHEE, Jacqueline COOK and Lisa COOK,
   all of Tahlequah; nine grandchildren, one niece, two nephews, and many
   other relatives and friends.