Cook, Ruth Buie 


GILMER -- Services for Ruth Buie Cook, 86, of Gilmer, will be held 10 a.m. 
Friday, August 25, 2006, at First United Methodist Church in Gilmer, with 
the Reverend Kenneth Calhoun officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset 
Memorial Park, under the direction of Croley Funeral Home. Born November 29, 
1919, in Gilmer, to Franklin Neil and Blanche Davis Buie, she died Tuesday, 
August 22, 2006, in Gilmer. She lived in Gilmer all of her life and attended 
Stevens College in Missouri and Southern Methodist University, where she was 
in the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Mrs. Cook was very active in community 
service, a member of Twentieth Century Club, Garden Club, Library Board, 
Dallas Women's Club, two bridge clubs, and an active member of First United 
Methodist Church. She was compassionate to her neighbors and friends, and 
enjoyed traveling, walking, and gardening. Mrs. Cook was preceded in death by 
her husband, Robert Berry Cook. She is survived by her three sons and 
daughters-in-law, Bob and Louisa Cook of Dallas, Tom and Patti Cook of Longview, 
and Bill and Karen Cook of Longview; and seven grandchildren, Julie, Hayley, 
Elizabeth, Bill Jr., Kevin, Alison, and Buie. Pallbearers will be Gearald Farris, 
Steve Williams, Paul David Williams, William B. Cook Jr., Robert Buie Cook, and 
Kevin Ford Cook. Visitation is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Thursday evening, August 
24, 2006, at Croley Funeral Home.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 8/23/2006.