Services are 1 p.m. Tuesday at Peterson-Wallin-Knox Funeral Home, Alpha. The Rev. Don Robinson will officiate. Burial is in Alpha Cemetery. Visitation is 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the nursing home or Tri-County Ambulance.
The former Edith M. Cook was born May 11, 1911, in rural Aledo, the daughter of Edward and Fanny McCaw Cook. She married Charles W. Metzner Aug. 4, 1928, in Rock Island. He died March 29, 1977.
She had worked at the former Farmall Plant, Rock Island, during World War II. She also worked for many years at Rutledge Greenhouse, Alpha. She retired from the former Illinois State Hospital, East Moline.
She was a former member of Alpha United Methodist Church, the Oxford Township Firemen's Auxiliary and Aledo Garden Club.
Her interests included gardening, fishing, needlework and her family.
Survivors (and spouses) include her daughters, Paulie (Herbert Jr.) Hall, Sherrard, Jacqueline (Arthur) Nelson, Woodhull, and Betty (Bruce) Paul, Aledo; son, William C. (Joan) Metzner, Alpha; 11 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; brothers, Willard (Winifred) Cook, Rock Island, and Alden Cook, Iowa; and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, great-grandson, three sisters and nine brothers.
Services are 1 p.m. Tuesday at Peterson-Wallin-Knox Funeral Home, Alpha. The Rev. Don Robinson will officiate. Burial is in Alpha Cemetery. Visitation is 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the nursing home or Tri-County Ambulance.
The former Edith M. Cook was born May 11, 1911, in rural Aledo, the daughter of Edward and Fanny McCaw Cook. She married Charles W. Metzner Aug. 4, 1928, in Rock Island. He died March 29, 1977.
She had worked at the former Farmall Plant, Rock Island, during World War II. She also worked for many years at Rutledge Greenhouse, Alpha. She retired from the former Illinois State Hospital, East Moline.
She was a former member of Alpha United Methodist Church, the Oxford Township Firemen's Auxiliary and Aledo Garden Club.
Her interests included gardening, fishing, needlework and her family.
Survivors (and spouses) include her daughters, Paulie (Herbert Jr.) Hall, Sherrard, Jacqueline (Arthur) Nelson, Woodhull, and Betty (Bruce) Paul, Aledo; son, William C. (Joan) Metzner, Alpha; 11 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; brothers, Willard (Winifred) Cook, Rock Island, and Alden Cook, Iowa; and nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, great-grandson, three sisters and nine brothers.
Family Members
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Mary Lucy Cook Hood
1894–1963
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Georgia Grace Cook Kinnamon
1895–1969
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Henry Irvin Cook
1896–1990
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Arthur Leslie Cook
1898–1924
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James Ralph Cook
1899–1968
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Herbert Francis Cook
1901–1965
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Paul Everett Cook
1903–1975
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Aura Ethel Mae Cook Bellinger Schoening Kelly
1905–1988
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Glen Edward Cook
1907–1983
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Alden Clark Cook
1908–2005
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Stanley LeRoy Cook
1913–1978
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Willard Eugene Cook
1915–2008
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Capt Charles Merel Cook
1918–1994
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Lieut Orrin Vinton Cook
1922–1995
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