
I wanted to thank everyone for all the thoughts, prayers, and well-wishes following my dad's passing Saturday in North Carolina. As many of our friends knew, he'd been ill for a long time. In fact, the running joke in our family is that "Cooke's don't die." My grandmother - his mom - was 98 years old when she died, and in spite of multiple heart attacks, two open heart surgeries, a hip replacement and two strokes, he refused to give up. Apparently his training as a Golden Gloves boxing champion, a Marine during WWII, and a career as a pastor taught him a lot about fighting. But we did get the call that he was really ... read more
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