OBIT: Lucy (SCULL) COOK, 1942, native of Somerset County, PA

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LUCY SCULL COOK

  Mrs. Lucy Scull Cook, wife of Major Ernest V. Cook, president of the First 
National Bank of Somerset, died Sunday morning in the West Penn Hospital in 
Pittsburgh where she had been a patient for seven months.
  Born in Somerset, Mrs. Cook was the eldest child of the late George Ross and 
Caroline Baer Scull.  Her forebearers were several of Somerset's most 
distinguished families.
  She was educated in the Somerset schools and St. Margaret's school at 
Waterbury, Connecticut. 
  October 22, 1921, Miss Lucy B. Scull was united in marriage with Major Ernest 
Vincent Cook, popular veteran of our war with Spain and World War, and son of 
the late Jonas M. Cook.
  Surviving Mrs. Cook are her husband, a son, George Scull Cook, a student at 
Harvard University, and a daughter, Anna Catherine Cook, a student in the 
Baldwin School at Bryn Mawr.  She is also survived by one brother, John I. 
Scull, and a sister, Miss Anna C. Scull, both of Somerset.  Another brother, 
Edward Scull, preceded her in death.
  Mrs. Cook spent her entire life in Somerset, with the exception of two years 
following her marriage when she and her husband resided in Pittsburgh.  She was 
a devoted wife and mother.
  She was particularly beloved for her charity and hospitality and many persons 
have been the recipients of her bounty.  She enjoyed an unusually wide circle of 
friends to whom her passing will be a source of great sorrow.
  She was always prominent in the social, civic, religious and political 
activities of the county and was the first woman to serve a term on the Somerset 
borough school board, and was largely responsible for the enlargement of the 
high school plant and the introduction of agriculture and vocational training in 
the Somerset schools.
  Mrs. Cook was instrumental in organizing the County Federation of Women's 
Clubs and was its first president.  At the time of her death, she was chairman 
of the Somerset Chapter of the Needlework Guild.
  In early youth she united with St. Paul's Reformed Church and until the time 
of her last illness was always faithful in her attendance at worship services 
and in the various activities of the congregation.
  Funeral services were held at the family home on East Union Street Tuesday 
afternoon at 3:30 in charge of Dr. George L. Roth, pastor of St. Paul's Reformed 
Church.  Interment in Union Cemetery in charge of Charles R. Hauger, Somerset 
mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, August 27, 1942