Mr. William Melbern Cook, age 88 of Cedartown, Georgia, passed away on Monday, February 13, 2023. He was born on January 14, 1935 in Haralson County. He was the son of the late Ollie and Kitty Lora Worthy Cook.
Mr. Cook was a long-time member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, where his parents met on the front steps. He was the oldest of their fourteen children. Mr. Cook was a veteran of the US Army stationed in Germany during the 1950s and was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Sand Hill.
He retired from Southwire in Carrollton and also worked as a brick mason. He loved watching the Atlanta Braves and The Lone Ranger and other Westerns. Mr. Cook remembered everyone’s birthday, and his family and friends will miss his birthday call. In 1986, Mr. Cook met the love of his life, Ida Mae Crawford, to whom he was married for almost 30 years.
Mr. Cook is survived by his sons, Allen Cook, Rick Crawford (Susan) and Richard Crawford (Susan); sisters, Rachel Pollard (Steve), Patricia Edwards (Lars), Madelyn Crumpler (Mike), Sandra Gordon (Robert), Ollie Faye Bradbary, Judy Brown (David), and Retha Sue Adams; brothers, Homer Cook (Brenda), Dearl Cook (Kay) and Sterling Cook (Betty Lou); sister-law-, Elizabeth Cook; grandchildren, Janae and Parker Crawford, Dakota and Lexi Crawford, Christy and Lindsey Brown, Natasha Cook, Scott Cook, Michael Cook and Kimberly Cook; several great-grandchildren; great-great-grandson; and several nieces and nephews.
Mr. Cook is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Ida Mae Spivey Cook; daughter, Deborah Cook Brown; son, Jeffery Cook; sisters, Princes Darlene Cook and Emily Windom; and brother, O’Neal Cook.
The funeral service for Mr. William Melbern Cook will be held on Friday, February 17, 2023 at two o’clock in the afternoon in the chapel of the Gammage Funeral Home with Rev. Brad Gordon and Rev. Colt Deems officiating. Interment will follow in the New Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery with full Masonic Rites.
The family of Mr. Cook will receive family and friends on Thursday, February 16, 2023 from five o’clock in the evening until seven o’clock in the evening at the Gammage Funeral Home.
The following gentlemen will serve as pallbearers: Chad Cook, Brodie Cook, Dennis Brown, Dakota Crawford, Parker Crawford, and James White.
Messages of condolence can be made to the family by visiting our website and signing the online guestbook at gammagefh.com.
The Olin L. Gammage and Son Funeral Home is handling the arrangements for Mr. William Melbern Cook.
