Chester Allen Cooke
Kittitas Co., WA
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Contributed by:  Shelli Steedman 4/20/2007


Chester Allen Cooke, 60, widely known Ellensburg resident and a Kittitas
Valley native, died this morning [January 31, 1950] at the Valley General
Hospital.  He had been in the hospital four days.

A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George B. Cooke, who conducted large early-day
cattle operations in the valley, Cooke was born here and had lived most of his
life in the valley.  He farmed on the old Cooke place in the Edgemont-Thrall
District until 1938, when he moved to a ranch near Cashmere.  In June of 1941,
a few months before Pearl Harbor, he went to Hawaii to work in a Naval
installation there.  He remained in Hawaii three years and then retuned to the
mainland to take employment in a Naval installation on Treasure Island, San
Francisco.  He returned here in 1946.  He was a member of the Methodist
Church.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Winifred Cooke for Ellensburg; three daughters,
Mrs. Dorothy Ohlander, Mrs. Frances Lieb, and Mrs. Ruth Treischel, all of
Seattle; two sons, Bruce of Atlanta, Ga., and Robert of Cashmere; two
brothers, Guy Cooke of Ellensburg and Lloyd Cooke of Tacoma; three sisters,
Mrs. Ruby Baird of Ellensburg, Mrs. Kate Bull of Calgary and Mrs. Florence Roe
of Omak; and five grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Honeycutt-
Evenson Chapel, with Rev. H. W. Harshman officiating.  Burial will be in the
IOOF cemetery.