Robert Clayton Cook

Memorial services for Robert Cook, 85, of Richardson will be 3:00 pm Thursday, December 6, 2012 at the First United Methodist Church of Richardson. Reverends Jimmy Mobley, Clayton Oliphant and Laura Trent will officiate. Following cremation, inurnment will take place at the Dallas Fort Worth National Veterans Cemetery. He passed away Monday, November 26, 2012 in Richardson, TX.

Robert was born October 6, 1927, in North Kansas City, MO, the youngest of four children, to James Franklin Cook Sr. and Mina Ruth Ewing Cook. He was raised and educated in North Kansas City, MO where he was active in sports and drama and graduated high school. He served as a weather observer in the United States Air Corps from 1945 to 1947. Robert married Joan Busey on January 26, 1952 in Wichita, KS. They lived in Kansas City, MO, Arlington Heights, IL, and Chattanooga, TN with a final move to Richardson, TX in 1974.

Mr. Cook worked for CPC international for more than 35 years in different areas of traffic management and distribution center management. He was active in the Methodist Church Chancel Choir and Sunday school throughout his married life. Robert and Joan belonged to the Happy Cookers gourmet group for 36 years. He enjoyed playing golf, doing yard work, watching old movies, and doing crossword puzzles. He accepted his illness and the related problems with a great deal of grace and continued to fight until his body and mind no longer allowed it. He was kind and quiet but loved a good funny story or joke and kept his sense of humor until the very end.

Mr. Cook was preceded in death by his parents, sisters Margaret Cook and Dorothy Cook Knipple, and brother James Franklin Cook Jr.

Survivors include his wife of 60 years Joan Busey Cook; son Robert J. Cook and his wife Jean Davis Cook; daughter Kathryn Cook Anderson and her husband Trygve Anderson; grandson Robert Clayton Cook II and his wife Karen Pietsch Cook; and grandson Kenneth Franklin Cook.

In lieu of flowers memorials are requested to the Chancel Choir Music Fund, First United Methodist Church of Richardson, 503 N. Central Expressway, Richardson, TX 75080.