Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Sunday, June 27, 1971

Mrs. Ruth Cook

Mrs. Ruth Cook, 76, of 2653 Trichel, Bossier City, died at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at the Pilgrim Manor Nursing Home after a long illness.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Central Assembly of God Church in Fillmore with the Rev. C. W. Holeyfield, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Fillmore Cemetery under the direction of Wellman's Funeral Home.

Mrs. Cook was a native of Haughton and a lifetime resident of the Shreveport area. She was a member of the Assembly of God Church.

Survivors include two sons, Eugene B. Harper of Springhill and Barto Lee Harper of Minturn, Colo.; two daughters, Mrs. Lois Ann Martin of Goldonna and Mrs. Lavera Nell Shinn of Artesia, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Leda D. Musser of Shreveport; 37 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.