March 4, 2008

ORAN - Thelma Cook, 83, died at 1:20 p.m. March 3, 2008, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Born Sept. 29, 1924, at Gideon, to the late Frank Lee and Ethel Jordan Vaughn, she was a homemaker and member of Hooe Baptist Church in Oran. On Dec. 31, 1948, she married Delmar Cleave Cook, who survives...

ORAN - Thelma Cook, 83, died at 1:20 p.m. March 3, 2008, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

Born Sept. 29, 1924, at Gideon, to the late Frank Lee and Ethel Jordan Vaughn, she was a homemaker and member of Hooe Baptist Church in Oran.

On Dec. 31, 1948, she married Delmar Cleave Cook, who survives.

Other survivors include: one son, Vincent Cook of Scott City; two daughters, Brenda Riley and Sheila Lee of Sikeston; one brother, Stanton Dale Vaughn of Morley; two sisters, Dorlis Young of Oran and Wanda Ogden of Morley; and seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Two sisters preceded her in death.

Visitation is at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran, where services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday. The Rev. David Richbourg will officiate.

Burial will follow in the New Morley Cemetery.

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