OBIT: Robert A. COOK, 1945, native of Blair County, PA

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Heart Attack is Fatal to Ex-Sheriff 
  
  Death came to Robert A. Cook, former sheriff of Blair county and well 
known in this community in Washington, D.C. this morning following a 
sudden heart attack.
  Mr. Cook, who resided for many years at 1118 Fifth avenue and more 
recently in Juniata gap, serving Blair county as sheriff for one term 
from 1930 to 1934 at the conclusion of eight years service as a clerk 
in the office of the county commissioners at Hollidaysburg.
  Before he accepted that employment in 1922, he had been an employee 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad company from the age of 17, when he became 
an apprentice in the Twelfth street machine shop.  He had twenty years 
service with the company when he resigned to enter the courthouse.
  A member of the Republican county committee for some years, he was 
prominent in political, civic and fraternal activities.  At the time of 
his death he was attached to the National Art Galleries in Washington 
in a position he had held since January [1945].
  Robert A. Cook was born in Altoona July 25, 1873, the son of William 
and Elizabeth (Hodge) Cook, both deceased.  His wife Minnie (Harris) 
Cook survives, as do one son and three daughters, William R. of 
Juniata, Mrs. Selina Kay, Mrs. Martha Neher and Mrs. Viola McCartney, 
all of Altoona; two sisters, Mrs. Annie Lafferty of Richmond Hill, N.Y. 
and Mrs. Mary Kemmerling of Altoona; and seven grandchildren.
  He was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal church, of Logan lodge No. 
490, F. and A. M. and the State Sheriff's association.  The body will 
be brought to Altoona for funeral services and interment.
  Funeral services will be held at Hickey funeral home.  Rev. John R. 
Leatherbury in charge.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., April 13, 1945

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