Vanitia Ann Cook

Vanitia Ann Cook, age 89, of Kemp, Texas passed away on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. Vanitia was born June 13, 1933, in Achille, Oklahoma to Houston and Nellie Bell Beaubien. She was raised in Oklahoma along with her seven brothers and two sisters.

In 1955 Vanitia met and fell madly in love with Johnnie Frank Cook of Dallas, TX and they married three months later, October 21, 1955.

Johnnie was a soldier and they lived in Baumholder Germany, Fort Sill Oklahoma and finally settled at Fort Hood Texas where their three children, Lucretia, Johanna and Kevin attended primary school. Vanitia attended two years of secretarial school and worked on the base while Johnnie was overseas doing tours of duty in Korea and Vietnam.

In May of 1972 Johnnie retired and he and the family moved to Dallas where they started the John Cook and Associates Heating and Air Conditioning Company. Johnnie ran the business and Vanitia worked for the Seagoville Federal Credit Union. Eleven years later she joined the business full-time and did all the accounting work until 2005, when she retired.

Vanitia loved the Lord. She and Johnnie joined Central Baptist Church of Crandall in 1997. Vanitia loved to cook, sew, visit with family, travel, and go to Gaither concerts.

Vanitia is survived by her husband of almost 67 years, John Cook; their children, Lucretia Stewart and husband John, Johanna Rhodes and husband Terry, Kevin Cook and wife Andie; grandchildren, Scott Stewart and wife Ashley, Ryan Cook and wife Sarah, Kaara Dyke and husband Jason, John Bradley Boone and wife Christina, Chase Cook, Clay Boone and Lacy Bizzell, Caleb Stewart and wife Anna, Kaitlyn Smith and husband Charlie, Megan Sommers and husband Chris, Sharon Rhodes, Jake Rhodes, Kevin Dale Freeman (deceased), Ashley Adrio and Lance Freeman, along with numerous great grandchildren.

Vanitia is also survived by her brother, Larry Beaubien and wife Toni, and sisters, Elaine McGeehee, and Sandra Duncan.

As Vanitia entered heaven’s gates, we believe there was a band of family to greet her including her parents, Houston and Nellie Beaubien; her siblings, Leon Beaubien, Leonard Beaubien, Kenyon Beaubien, Dewayne Beaubien, Doyle Beaubien, and Keith Beaubien. Also her father and mother in-law, John Henry and Ladell Cook along with many others. What a grand reunion there must have been!

A visitation for Vanitia will be held Thursday, September 1, 2022 at 1:00 PM at Central Baptist Church of Crandall with the funeral service to follow at 2:00 PM. The committal service will occur Thursday, September 1, 2022 at Roselawn Memorial Gardens, following the funeral Service.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.roselawn-funerals.com for the Cook family.