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Everett Melvin Cook Sr.

10 Jun 1920 – 28 Aug 1987

Birth	10 Jun 1920
Death	28 Aug 1987
Cemetery	Fon du Lac Township Cemetery East Peoria , Tazewell County , Illinois , USA
Added by	James Martens on 25 Nov 2007
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22952331

Bio

Everett Melvin Cook was born July 10, 1920 to Frances (Martens) and Mellie (Dutch) Cook in Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois. He married Ida Mae Jones in Iowa in 1937. They divorced. He spent most of his younger years with his Aunt and Uncle Sunie and Willie Steinberger in Kentucky. When war broke out on December 7, 1941 Everett was at the enlistment center the morning of December 9, 1941. He fought in the European theatre throughout the war. In 1950 He married Elsie P. (Bisco) Martens. He was a farmer in Stark County, Illinois during the 1950's and worked as a maintenance man for the YWCA in Peoria, Illinois. Everett is survived by his wife, a son Everett Cook Jr.(Charlene),a daughter Thelma Lee Snedden (Donald) of Pekin, Illinois, two step-sons Antony Martens (Lorene)of Columbia, Kentucky, James Martens (Donna)of Hurst, Texas, a step-daughter Jessie Hood of Sacramento, California.

Inscription

PVT US ARMY WORLD WAR II

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Family

Parents

• Mellie "Dutch" Lee Cook 1891–1976 FaG
• Frances Fanney Martens Walker 1899–1985 FaG

Spouse

• Ida Mae Jones Cook 1918–1998 FaG
• Elsie Pearl Bisco Cook 1922–1999

Siblings

• Louise E. Cook Walraven 1917–1981 FaG
• Elizabeth Marie "Betty" Cook Hacker 1927–1994 FaG

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