David B. Cook

Published 5:00 am Thursday, October 19, 2006

Services for David B. Cook, of Summit, are 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct.21, at Williams Mortuary Chapel with burial in Mt. Zion ChurchCemetery.

Visitation is Friday from 1 until 6 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mr. Cook, 67, died Oct. 15, 2006, at Hospice Ministries,Ridgeland. He was born in Summit on May 17, 1939, to Andrew CookSr., and Eddie V. Cook.

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He was a 1958 graduate of Lincoln County Training School. He wasa retired bus driver and carpenter, and was employed with theChicago Transit Authority (C.T.A.). He was a member of Mt. ZionBaptist Church in Bogue Chitto.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his brother, Albert”Jay Boy” Cook; his sister, Lula Cook; and his granddaughter,Maxine Wilson.

Survivors are his son, Anthony Cook, of South Holland, Ill.; hisdaughter, Towanda Wilson and husband Paul, of South Holland; hissisters, Catherine Easterling, of Chicago, Ill., and Eldora Cook,of Summit; his brothers, X.L. Cook and wife Gloria, of Gardena,Calif., Sam Cook and wife Phyllis, Andrew Cook Jr., and wife Emma,Nora Cook and wife Johnnie, and James Kelly Cook and wife Shelia,all of Summit, Willie Lee Cook, of Chicago, and Albert Cook, ofBrookhaven; his goddaughter, Twanta Lowe and husband Fred, ofSummit; his niece, Yvonne Cook, of Bogue Chitto; his grandchildren,Twylla and Trelly Wilson, of South Holland; and many nieces,nephews and other relatives.