Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cook, Robert H. Jr., 1975 

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ROBERT HENRY "DINK" COOK, JR.

  Robert H. (Dink) Cook, Jr., 70, a retired farmer of the Ivor community, 
died Thursday, November 13, 1975.  He was a member of Tucker Swamp Baptist 
Church.  Survived by his wife, Mrs. Maggie Wells Cook; seven sons, Robert L. 
Cook, Bennie F. Cook, John R. Cook, Joseph F. Cook, all of Ivor, Thomas D. 
Cook of Petersburg, Richard E. Cook of Disputanta, Leonard L. Cook of 
Hernando, Miss.; fifteen grandchildren; his step-mother, Mrs. Sweetie Mae 
Cook of Suffolk; one sister, Mrs. Gladys C. Dickerson of Smithfield; one 
brother, Linwood Cook of Ivor; three half-brothers, Ray Cook and Roger Cook 
of Suffolk, Bobby L. Cook of Ivor; three half-sisters, Mrs. Lucille Berryman 
of Surry, Mrs. Margaret Nenturs of Suffolk, and Mrs. Elsie Johnson of 
Franklin.  Funeral services will be held Saturday, November 15 at 2:30 p.m. 
in the Tucker Swamp Baptist Church.  Burial in church cemetery.  The remains 
rest at the Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield.


Robert Henry "Dink" COOK, Jr., of Ivor, retired farmer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 13 Nov 1975, Suffolk, age 70, 
interred in Tucker Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery*, 15 Nov 1975, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Nov. 14, 1975, p. 52 

*His father & step-mother are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Tucker Swamp list (TS-14): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/tckrswp.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," June 13, 1947, p. 16) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c200r3ob.txt 

His birth-mother, Rosa B. (BRITT) COOK, may be buried with her sister Mollie - 
   who married Dink's uncle Samuel COOK - in a BRITT-COOK family cemetery, 
   off Hwy. 460. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 9 (IX-24&25): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol9.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

file at: 
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