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Clifton E. Cook, age 70, of Coleman, Texas passed away Sunday, July 8, 2001, at 2 p.m. at the VA Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

Memorial services will be Saturday at 9:00a.m. at Henderson Funeral Home Chapel of Coleman with Father Leonard Goettemoeller of Sacred Heart Catholic Church officiating.

Clifton was born April 12, 1931 in Pharr, Texas to the late Ben D. and April Leona Hanson Cook. He was reared in Edinburg and attended the Edinburg Schools and was an Air Force veteran of the Korean Conflict. Clifton married Kimberly Lumingkit on November 22, 1986 in the Philippines and they had celebrated 14 years of marriage. He had been a resident of Coleman since 1997 and was a member of the Catholic Church. Clifton had retired following 37 years as a crop duster pilot.

Survivors include his wife, Kimberly Cook, of Coleman, Texas; two sisters, Dorene Devine of McAllen, Texas and Rosalee Frost of Arizona; two brothers, Jack Cook of Edinburg, Texas and Col. William Cook of San Antonio, Texas. He was preceded in death by his son, Jonathan Cook, in 1991.

(Published in the Coleman Chronicle and Democrat-Voice on July 17, 2001)

Clifton married Kathleen Ann Devillier 20 Oct 1967; divorced 1 Sep 1983, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA. Kathleen (daughter of Joseph Edgar Devillier and Dorothy Mary Borel) was born 12 Apr 1941, Rayne, Acadia Parish, Louisiana, USA; died 16 Jul 2019, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried 10 Aug 2019, Fairview Cemetery - Winnie, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Memorial services were held at Gossen Funeral Home Thursday, June 6, at 11:30 a.m. for Jonathan Edward Cook, 22, who died at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 4, at Oschner Medical Center.

Fr. Eugene Tremie, pastor, St. Joseph Catholic Church, officiated.

He is survived by his mother, Kathleen Cook of Kansas City, Missouri; father and stepmother, Clifton and Kim Cook of Scott; three brothers, Harry Allen of Michigan, Mike Allen of Rayne and Todd Allen of Lafayette; one sister, Susette Forrestier of Mire; and grandmother, Mrs. Edgar DeVillier of Winnie, Texas.

Gossen Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

(Published in The Bunkie Record on June 9, 1991)



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NEW ORLEANS - Jonathan Edward Cook, 22, of Scott, La. died June 4.

He had lived in McAllen for ten years, and graduated from McAllen High School.

He died in Oschner's Hospital cardiac unit in New Orleans.

He is survived by his parents Clifton and Kim Cook of Scott, La., and Kathleen Devillier Cook of Kansas City, Mo.; brothers, Harry L. Allen of Michigan, Michael Allen of Lafayette, La.; one sister, Suzette Forestier, of Mier, La.

Also surviving, his grandmother, Dorothy Devillier of Winnie; aunts Jane Baker of Anahuac; Marjorie Gossen of Rayne, La., Dorene Devine of McAllen and Rosa Lee Heinkle of McAllen; uncles Jack Cook and Gerald Cook of Edinburg and Bill Cook of San Antonio.

Memorial services were held at Gossen Funeral Home in Rayne, Louisiana on June 6.

(Published in The McAllen Monitor on August 8, 1991)