Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cooke, Richard Dickson, Jr. October 15, 1989
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Virginian-Pilot October 17, 1989
NORFOLK — Richard Dickson Cooke Jr., of the 1300 block of Daniel Ave., a retired 
vice president of the Royster Co., died Oct. 15,1989, in his Virginia Beach 
summer home. He was 74.
Mr. Cooke was a former board member of Sovran Bank and of Sentara Norfolk 
General Hospital. He was the first president of the Norfolk Unit of the American 
Cancer Society and was past president of the Ballentine Home. He served as a 
past chairman of the United Way Fund. He was a member of the Norfolk German 
Club, the Norfolk Navy League and First Presbyterian Church of Norfolk. He 
attended the University of Virginia and was a graduate of Woodberry Forest 
School and Norfolk Academy.
Mr. Cooke, a Norfolk native, was the grandson of F.S. Royster, founder of the 
company. He began working with the Royster Co. just before World War II and, 
after serving in the Army Air Corps as a pilot, he returned to the company in 
1945. He retired as vice president in 1980. He spent the last 13 months of the 
war as a German prisoner of war after his plane, a B17, was shot down.


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