Nettie Leona Cook was born June 16, 1910 in Champaign, Illinois,
the second oldest child of Fred and Elizabeth Louis. She had an
older sister, Elizabeth, and a younger brother, Fred. She attended
grade school, junior high and graduated from the Champaign Senior
High School in 1927.
After high school, she married Ernest Cook, Co-Owner of the Cook
Brothers Emporium in downtown Champaign.
She began a very active civic life in the Champaign-Urbana Community,
serving as the Corresponding Secretary of the Champaign-Urbana
Kindergarten Association; Co-founder and past officer of the Royalettes
- a civic-minded club; Worthy Matron of Deborah Chapter #27, Order
of Eastern Star; Financial Secretary of the Champaign County Section
of NCNW; Telecare Volunteer, and Election Judge. As a devoted
member of Bethel A.M.E. Church, she served as Treasurer of the
Missionary Society, and the Church Building Fund Raiser; a dedicated
representative to Church Women United and she served on the Stewardess
Board. For all of these activities, she received many service
awards.
She retired in 1976, after 26 years of administrative service
at the Chanute Air Force Base.
She was the mother of one daughter. Nettie Cook died November
22, 1996.
Nettie
Leona Cook