Luther Denzil Cook

GREENSBORO Luther Denzil Cook, age 79, passed away on Sunday night at Hospice of West Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Sunset Funeral Home with Sunset Funeral Home, a Dignity Memorial Provider, directing. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the funeral home.

He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Edna Dockery Cook; his four children, Linda C. Dunn (Larry), Brenda Dunn (“Chub”), Larry D. Cook (Marilyn), and James “Jimmy” Cook (Michelle); his brothers, Seborn Cook (Lena) and Buddy Roy Cook (Patricia); brother-in-law, Clyde Wilson, 10 grandchildren; 8 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and other family members.

He was preceded in death by his parents, J.L. and Tiny Pate Cook; his sisters, Elizabeth Pearl Noland (Rufus) and Earline Wilson; and a niece, Nancy Noland Ewing.

He will be remembered as an honest and loving man that enjoyed his hobby of raising chickens and exotic birds and was often referred to as “the chicken man.” He is now without pain and with his loved ones that passed before him but he will be deeply missed and never forgotten by all those lives that he touched.

Pallbearers will be Larry Cook, Larry Cook, Jr., Larry Dunn, Jr., Jonathan Cook, Darrin Cook, Rusty Cook, and Jamie Turner.

Honorary pallbearers are Norris and Connie Crawford, Bobby and Dorothy Hale, John and Pauline Kuykendall, all the staff of Lewis and Faye Manderson Cancer Center, Dr. Vaughn's offices, and Hospice as well as the communities of Samantha and Friendship.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Hospice of West Alabama or Lewis and Faye Manderson Cancer Center.