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Submitted: 5/26/21 • Approved: 5/29/21 • Last Updated: 6/1/21 • R421886-G421886-S3
Leroy Jasper
February 14, 1916-June 13, 1964
Mason
Dorothy Pauline
June 29, 1921-April 24, 2007
Order of Eastern Star
Married September 20, 1940
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Leroy
Funeral services for Leroy Jasper Cook, 48, of 503 Musgrave, Phillips, were held at 1:30 p.m. today from Fellowship Baptist Church with the Rev. W.A. Frerking, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Dimmitt Cemetery under direction of Minton Mortuary.
Cook died at 3 p.m. Saturday at North Plains Hospital. He had resided in Phillips for 20 years and was employed by Phillips Petroleum Company as a warehouse clerk. He was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Pauline, and daughter, Janet, of the home; a son, Dick of Pittsburgh, Pa.; four brothers, Wesley of Purcell, Okla., Howard and Donald of Dimmitt, Ronald of Amarillo; a sister, Mrs. David Runyon of Irving; and his mother, Mrs. Ruby Cook of Dimmitt.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Monday, June 15, 1964, Page 1)
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U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Leroy Jasper Cook
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 24
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 14 Feb 1916
Birth Place: Wilbarger, Texas, USA
Residence Place: Montague, Texas, USA
Registration Date: 16 Oct 1940
Employer: F P Martin
Weight: 164
Complexion: Light
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Blonde
Height: 5 7
Next of Kin: Pauline Dorothy Cook
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Leroy Cook
Death Date: 13 Jun 1964
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Leroy Jasper Cook
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 48
Birth Date: 14 Feb 1916
Birth Place: Wilbarger, Texas
Residence: Phillips, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 13 Jun 1964
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: Henry Harve Cook
Mother: Ruby Josephine Winkle
Contributed on 5/26/21
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