Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cooke, George W., 1964 

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GEORGE WASHINGTON COOKE 

  SEDLEY - Funeral services for George Washington Cooke were conducted today 
at 2 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland Funeral Home, Franklin, by the Rev. C.L. Gatling, 
pastor of Sedley Baptist Church.  Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley. 

  Cooke, 81, retired farmer and resident of Sedley for 4½ years, died Tuesday 
in Ridgeway Nursing home near Baltimore. 

  A native of Bertie County, N.C., he was a member of Sedley Baptist Church. 
He was a son of James Monroe and Mrs. Jane Evans Cooke and the husband of the 
late Mrs. Eunice Hall Cooke. 

  Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. W.P. Newsome of Sedley, Mrs. Annie Damm 
of Washington and Mrs. Ralph Asbell of Suffolk; three sons, C.W. Cooke of 
Baltimore and James M. Cooke and William H. Cooke of Washington; a brother, 
Irving Cooke of Roxobel, N.C.; nine grandchildren and a great-grandchild. 


George Washington COOKE, retired farmer, 
b. 18 Apr 1882, Roxobel, Bertie Co., NC, d. 17 Nov 1964, near Baltimore, MD, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 20 Nov 1964, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 42, No. 279, Fri., Nov. 20, 1964, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Rosemont list (S-17): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 

No Find a Grave Memorial 

His parents, James Monroe and Sarah Jane (EVANS) COOKE, 
   are buried in a COOKE family cemetery, Kelford, Bertie Co., NC. 

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 19, 1961, Sect. 2, p. 4) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c200e4ob.txt 


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