[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 48 (Thursday, March 19, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E714]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          HONORING THE MEMORY OF MILDRED JUANITA NETTLES COOK

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                             HON. JO BONNER

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 19, 2009

  Mr. BONNER. Madam Speaker, Wilcox County recently lost a dear friend, 
and I rise today to honor Mildred Juanita Nettles Cook and pay tribute 
to her memory.
  A lifelong resident of Arlington, Mrs. Cook graduated from Wilcox 
County High School and, in 1940, she graduated with honors from Alabama 
State College for Women in Montevallo.
  Mrs. Cook was also a lifelong member of the Arlington United 
Methodist Church, where she served as treasurer and Sunday school 
superintendent for many years. She was also a member of the United 
Methodist Women and the Friday Afternoon Club. She was a member of 
Alabama Charter Chapter #36 United Daughters of the Confederacy and the 
Lt. Joseph M. Wilcox Chapter of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution. She served as president of both the Alabama Division and 
the General Division of the UDC and was known and respected throughout 
the nation for her leadership in both the Daughters of the Confederacy 
and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
  Mrs. Cook was a charter director of the Town-Country National Bank in 
Camden. She also served as treasurer of the Arlington Methodist 
Community and Cemetery Foundation.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in remembering a 
dedicated community leader and friend to many throughout south Alabama. 
``Miss Mildred'' will be dearly missed by her family--her sons, Daniel 
Bragg Cook Jr. and his wife Angela, Samuel McPherson Cook and his wife 
Claudia, and Abe Crum Cook III and his wife Helen; her grandchildren, 
Jennifer Mildred Cook Nice, Richard Daniel Cook, Samuel McPherson Cook 
Jr., John Roan Cook, Claudina Pereira, Marian Denisse Cook, Abe Crum 
Cook IV, Braxton Dauphin Cook, and Kathryn Elizabeth Cook; her great-
grandchildren, Leina Tsou Cook, Anara Tsou Cook, and Samuel Rikard 
Cook; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins--as well as the countless 
friends she leaves behind.
  Our thoughts and prayers are with them all during this difficult 
time.

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