Obituary for Fern Cook | DuBore Funeral Home, Warren, MN
- Date Of Death: May 6, 2004
- State: Minnesota
Fern Cook passed away on Thursday, May 6, 2004 at the Good Samaritan Center in Warren, MN at the age of 85.
Mona Mabell was born on February 15, 1919 to Erma and John McInnes in Illinois. She was adopted by Harry and Katherine (Gehrig) Jeffries when she was five years old in Flint, MI. She was renamed Fern Harriet. She was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic faith. Her first job was waitressing at a diner in Flint owned by Kenneth Cook. On December 3, 1939, she was united in marriage to Kenneth B. Cook in Lansing, MI. In 1943, they moved to rural Viking, MN in Marshall County. To this union six children were born. Fern worked various jobs including rural school bus driver, Miller Oil Burner, Warren Hospital and at the Arctic Cat sewing factories. Kenneth died on April 14, 1984. Fern moved to Stephen, Minnesota in 2001.
She will be remembered for her sewing and crocheting abilities.
Left to mourn her passing are her children: Gale (Mary Lou) Cook of Viking, MN, Rona` (L.J.) Anderson of Baudette, MN, Patsy (Kenneth) Heggen of Stephen, MN, Bradley (Elsa) Cook of Stephen, MN and Michael (Joann) Cook of Hawley, MN. Also surviving are sixteen grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, half sister, Delores DeMarco of Michigan, half brother Robert Rhyne of Michigan, brother-in-law, John E. (Annabelle) Cook of Greeley, CO and several nieces, nephews and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, son, Alan Bruce Cook in 1969 and several brothers and sisters.