- Date Of Birth: June 6, 1935
- Date Of Death: June 4, 2017
- State: Georgia
Crook was a graduate of both Alabama Polytechnic Institute for her bachelor’s degree and the newly named Auburn University for her master’s degree. She moved to Newnan to teach home economics at East Coweta School in Senoia, where she met the local grocer at a school dance. He started sending her treats along with that day’s groceries to the school, and they married after a four year courtship, and she settled in Senoia and joined the Senoia United Methodist church, where she served and chaired many committees and taught Sunday school and Bible school regularly for years.
After her children were born, she changed her certification and taught a generation of elementary school children, who at first feared and then loved her. When she retired from teaching, she kept busy doing things she loved to do – taking trips, playing bridge, participating in the Senoia Variety Club, playing bunco, and going to the local coffee shop and Senior Center weekly for visits with friends.
“Miss Pat” will be remembered as organized, a great cook, dedicated to her community, defiant when she needed to be, and someone who could manage a crisis. She was a true Southern lady.
She is survived by her husband of almost 57 years, Ellis Crook, children Cheryl Thompson (John) and son, Greg Crook, grandchildren ;Gregory and Jordan Lee Crook. A son, Ken, predeceased her in 2005.
