Edna Patrick Cook

COOK, Edna Irene Patrick passed away Sunday, April 26, 2015 after an extended illness. She was born in Montgomery, AL. to Jasper Dunbar Patrick and Daisy Belma Goodson Patrick on August 18, 1927. She attended Goode St. School and Cottage Hill Elementary Schools, Baldwin Jr. High and graduated from Sidney Lanier High School. She attended Howard College in Birmingham and later graduated from Auburn Univ. at Montgomery where she was a member of the English, History and Education Honor Societies. She was a lifetime member of Phi Kappa Phi. She was preceded in death by her parents, seven brothers and sisters, her husband of 60 years, Allen M. Cook and a daughter Elizabeth Ann Cook. Survivors are a daughter, Cecilia Cook (Jep) Dalton, and a son David Allen Cook, and four grandchildren; three grandsons, Michael and Brian Dalton, and Patrick Cook and one granddaughter, Ashley Cook. Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 AM on Tuesday, April 28 at Alabama Heritage Funeral Home, with visitation at 9:00 AM prior to the services. She was a member of Frazer UMC where she volunteered in the English as a Second Language Program and the reading program in the public schools of Montgomery. She worked 30 years in the USAF Civil Service and also worked part time in the Huntingdon Learning Center. In lieu of flowers memorials can be made in her honor to The Smile Train or The Methodist Church Children’s Home.