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Garrett Slathuel Cook Sr.

February 9, 1923 February 27, 2009
Garrett Slathuel Cook Sr.
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Obituary for Garrett Slathuel Cook Sr.
Greer Funeral Home
235 South Pennsylvania
Mangum, Oklahoma 73554
(580) 782-3323
fax (580) 782-3652

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Garrett S. Cook, Sr., age 86, of Mangum, passed away at the Oklahoma Veterans" Center in Clinton early Friday morning, February 27, 2009.

Mr. Cook was born in Temple, Oklahoma on February 9, 1923, to Marris M. and Ethel I. (Groomer) Cook. In January 1943, he joined the United States Army Air Corps and served until November of 1945, when he moved to California. On July 12, 1946, he married Mildred Lenora Moore in Bakersfield, California and spent the next several years farming and working for Firestone Retread. In 1970, they moved to Duke for a short time before settling in Mangum. For the next eighteen years, Mr. Cook drove a truck for Republic Gypsum, retiring in 1988, living in Mangum until the time of his death.

Preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Manuel Cook and James Cook; two sisters, Ruby Robertson and Vera Padgett and two grandchildren, Tina Wick and Robert Kendrick, he is survived by his wife, Lenora of the home in Mangum; four children, Garrett S. Cook, Jr. and his wife Lynette of New Port News, Virginia, Mildred D. Higginbotham and husband Robert of Montgomery, Texas, Timothy A. Cook and wife Jarita of Mangum and Mark A. Cook and wife Pam of Elk City; one sister, Dorothy Dees and husband Lawrence of Bullhead City, Arizona; one brother, Ray Cook and wife Virginia of Bakersfield, California; ten grandchildren, Tammy, Morgan, Kimberly, Christa, Garrett, Rebel, Seth, Rachelle, Charlotte and Jill; twenty-one great grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.

Graveside services for Garrett S. Cook, Sr., will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, March 2, 2009, at Roselawn Cemetery with Pastor Shawn Laughlin officiating. Greer Funeral Home of Mangum is in charge of arrangements.

Online tributes may be made to the family at www.GreerFuneral.com
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