IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Burton S.
Cook
May 3, 1921 – April 2, 2007
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Burton Cook
Burton Sargent Cook, 85, of Annapolis and formerly of Ocala, Fla. since 1982, died of cardiac arrhythmia April 2 at Sunrise Assisted Living Facility.
Mr. Cook was born May 3, 1921, in West Norwich, N.Y., and reared in New York and Winter Park, Fla. He graduated from Greene High School in 1939 and attended Cornell University.
He served active duty in the Army Air Corps and Air Force as an aviator and Captain from 1942 to 1952, before continuing in the Air Force Reserves until his retirement at the rank of Major.
During World War II, he was deployed with the 437th Troop Carrier Command in England and flew numerous missions as part of the D-Day Normany Invasion, as well as in the European theater and North Africa. He also participated in evacuating prisoners of war from German POW camps in 1945. Following the war, he served in Alaska as the commander of a radar station.
In 1952, he began work with Link Aviation in Binghamton, N.Y., only to return to the Air Force in 1955 as a civil service employee working as project manager responsible for designing missile tracking ranges. He eventually retired in 1982.
He was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church, serving as a lay reader, vestry member and Sunday school teacher, mostly recently at St. Patrick's Church in Ocala. He was also a 32nd Degree Mason and member of the Veterans of Foreign War 4209 and the Kingdom of the Sun Retired Officer's Association, both in Ocala.
His interests included camping, boating, artwork, woodworking and completing home improvements projects with his children.
His wife of 56 years, Eva Mae Wagner Cook, whom he married in December 1942, died in 1999. He was the grandfather of the late Paul Carbino, who died in 1980. Surviving are one son, Richard Burton Cook of Arnold; three daughters, Vivian Ann Cook of Stuyvesant, N.Y., Karen Elaine Cook of Holley, N.Y., and Mary Cook Langsdorf of Irvine, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on May 27 at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 1601 Pleasant Plains Road in Annapolis. Additional services and burial will be held at 10 a.m. on June 12 at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church in Ocala.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to a local Hospice in his memory. Online condolences can be made to www.barrancofuneralhome.com.
As published on 5/20/2007 in The Capital Newspaper, Annapolis, MD
Burton Sargent Cook, 85, of Annapolis and formerly of Ocala, Fla. since 1982, died of cardiac arrhythmia April 2 at Sunrise Assisted Living Facility.
Mr. Cook was born May 3, 1921, in West Norwich, N.Y., and reared in New York and Winter Park, Fla. He graduated from Greene High School in 1939 and attended Cornell University.
He served active duty in the Army Air Corps and Air Force as an aviator and Captain from 1942 to 1952, before continuing in the Air Force Reserves until his retirement at the rank of Major.
During World War II, he was deployed with the 437th Troop Carrier Command in England and flew numerous missions as part of the D-Day Normany Invasion, as well as in the European theater and North Africa. He also participated in evacuating prisoners of war from German POW camps in 1945. Following the war, he served in Alaska as the commander of a radar station.
In 1952, he began work with Link Aviation in Binghamton, N.Y., only to return to the Air Force in 1955 as a civil service employee working as project manager responsible for designing missile tracking ranges. He eventually retired in 1982.
He was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church, serving as a lay reader, vestry member and Sunday school teacher, mostly recently at St. Patrick's Church in Ocala. He was also a 32nd Degree Mason and member of the Veterans of Foreign War 4209 and the Kingdom of the Sun Retired Officer's Association, both in Ocala.
His interests included camping, boating, artwork, woodworking and completing home improvements projects with his children.
His wife of 56 years, Eva Mae Wagner Cook, whom he married in December 1942, died in 1999. He was the grandfather of the late Paul Carbino, who died in 1980. Surviving are one son, Richard Burton Cook of Arnold; three daughters, Vivian Ann Cook of Stuyvesant, N.Y., Karen Elaine Cook of Holley, N.Y., and Mary Cook Langsdorf of Irvine, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. on May 27 at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 1601 Pleasant Plains Road in Annapolis. Additional services and burial will be held at 10 a.m. on June 12 at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church in Ocala.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to a local Hospice in his memory. Online condolences can be made to www.barrancofuneralhome.com.
As published on 5/20/2007 in The Capital Newspaper, Annapolis, MD
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