John A. Cooke
Oct. 29, 1894-July 8, 1963
Niles Daily Star, Tuesday, July 9, 1963, page 2, col. 1-2, microfilm Niles District Library
John A. Cooke, 68, Retired N-S Vice President, Dies
JOHN A. COOKE, 68, of 1600 Niles-Buchanan Road, died shortly after 6 p.m. Monday at Pawating Hospital where he had been a patient for 10 weeks. Mr. Cooke was retired from National-Standard Co., He had served a vice president, treasurer and a director of the firm.
Surviving are his widow, Millicent two daughters, Mrs. John R. Irwin, Lake Forest, Ill., and Mrs. John R. Purdy, Wellesley, Mass., three grandsons, and three sisters, Mrs. Harold Smith, Birmingham, England; Miss Edna Cooke, Blackpool, England, and Miss Anna Cooke, Manchester, England.
Mr. Cooke was born in Hyde, England, Oct. 29, 1894,and attended school in England. He served in the British Expeditionary Force in France for two years during World War I. After the war, he came to the U.S. and in 1921 became associated with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., accountants in Chicago, becoming a partner in 1930.
He came to Niles from Chicago in 1942, joining National-Standard Co.
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Mr. Cooke was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church. He had been on the Pawating Hospital Board of Directors, Chamber of Commerce board, United Fund board and was active in community affairs. He was also a member of several civic and social clubs in the area as well as Chicago. Mr. Cooke was also an honorary Kentucky colonel.
He was a director of the First National Bank of Niles, a past president of the National Cost Accountants' Association, a charter member of Beta Apha[sic] Psi, honorary accounting fraternity.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Trinity Episcopal Church, with the Rev. John Carlton, pastor of the church, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
The family requested that any memorials be made to the Chapel Fund of Pawating Hospital.