Ector Co. TX - Obits from the Odessa American Online 21 April 2001 Submitted by Charlene Beatty Beauchamp cbodessa@classicnet.net Thanks to the Odessa American Online http://www.oaoa.com/ ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OA Online Obituaries. April 21, 2001 Permian Basin Obituaries _________________________________________________________________ Edna Cook BALMORHEA Edna Cook, 91, of Big Spring, formerly of Balmorhea, died Tuesday, April 17, 2001, at a local nursing home. Her funeral services were at 3 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2001, at the First Baptist Church of Balmorhea with the Rev. Rick Moon of Toyahvale officiating. Burial followed at the Balmorhea Cemetery. She was born Dec. 21, 1909, in Pontotoc, Miss., to William Henry Haney and Fannie Cordelia Selman Haney. Her parents were pioneer Big Spring farmers coming to the area from Johnson County in 1925 when she was 16 years old. Edna accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior when she was about 12 years old. At that time, the family lived in Lillian. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Balmorhea. She married Marvin Otto Cook Feb. 16, 1929, at East Fourth Street Baptist Church in Big Spring after a Valentines party. They lived in the Howard-Borden County area where he worked on ranches in the 1930s. They moved to the Reeves County area in the early 1940s. They lived in Balmorhea and raised their family there. In the late 1970s, they returned to Big Spring. Besides participating in her husbands activities of farming, ranching and trail riding and being involved with her family, Edna was an avid flower and vegetable gardener. She also enjoyed bottle collecting and rock hunting. When Edna was 73, her interest in painting was brought to fruition by attending classes at the Spring City Senior Citizens Center. Her numerous paintings covered a variety of subjects and in 1984, five years after she started painting, she won first place at the Howard County Fair. She was preceded in death by her husband, Otto Cook; a son, Otto Cannon Cook; a daughter, Fannie Wanda Stanley; two sons-in-law, James R. Stanley and Billy W. Bryant; a granddaughter-in-law, Mona Cook; a great-grandson, Jason De Ax; four brothers, Johnny Haney, Sam Haney, Myrle Haney and R.E. Haney; and four sisters, Vio Haney, Anna Haney, Thelma White and Ivy Summers. She is survived by two sons, Pecos Cook and his wife Elizabeth of Balmorhea and Jack D. Cook and his wife Sherry of Odessa; four daughters, Juanita Rogers and her husband John of Lubbock, Dolly Bryant of Big Spring, Vera Martin and her husband Benny of Big Spring and Maggie Linda Armstead and her husband Charles of Levelland; a brother, Edward Haney of Carlsbad, N.M.; two sisters, Opal Barber and Vera Peterson, both of Big Spring; 24 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Arrangements by Myers and Smith Funeral Home. _________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2000, 2001 Odessa American. All rights reserved.