Funeral services for Mrs. Mabel Cook were held
Friday, June 23, 1961 at the Ashland Methodist Church with Rev. Frank Little
officiating. Mrs. john York at the organ accompanied a duet composed of Mrs.
Lester Barricklow and Mrs. LeRoy Schindler, who sang, "The Old Rugged Cross",
"Beautiful Isle of Somewhere", and "Sweet Hour Of Prayer".

The body was laid to rest in the Highland
Cemetery, Ashland. The Brown Mortuary of Ashland was in charge.

Mabel Leona Givler Cook

December 21, 1878 - June 21, 1961

Mabel Givler was born on December 21, 1878 at
Terre Haute, Indiana; the second of three children born to Samuel and Minnie
Givler. The family moved to Meade County when she was six years of age and
there she grew to womanhood.

In 1897 she moved to near Ashland, where she
worked on the Lackey ranch. It was while there that she met Robert Marion
Cook, ranch foreman, and in 1898 was married to him. To this union seven
children were born. In 1902 she and her husband went to Meade County where
they homesteaded and lived until 1916, when they moved to Wyoming. In 1917
they moved to Ashland, where they lived until 1924. During the ensuing years
they lived in Colorado and Arkansas. Following the death of her husband in
1939, Mrs. Cook returned to Ashland, where she made her home with her children
until three years ago when she moved to the Ashland Nursing Home. On June
12th of this year she entered the hospital where she passed away on the 21st,
at the age of 82 years and 6 months.

Besides her husband she was preceded in death
by her parents and four sons, W. N., Byron L., Thomas Burton and Robert Emmet.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Henry Chapman, Ashland; two sons, Winton
A., familiarly known as Doc, Vance E. Cook, and one sister, Mrs. E. May
Novinger, Plains; 15 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren. Mrs. Cook was
a member of the Ashland Methodist Church. Although life was not easy for her,
Mabel never complained and all who knew her will remember her cheerful
disposition.