Individual Details

Jessie Lorene Fletcher

(12 Feb 1919 - 16 Oct 2003)

Chattanooga Times Free Press, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday, October 18, 2003: Jessie Lorene Fletcher Cooke, 84, of East Ridge, went to be with the Lord on Thursday Oct. 16, 2003, at a local health care center. Originally from Buford, Ark., Mrs. Cooke had lived in East Ridge for the past 40 years. She was a member of Calvary Assembly of God. She was preceded in death by her husband, the Rev. Donald N. Cooke; her parents, Edgar and Danie Fletcher; her brother, Jewell Fletcher; her grandson, Jody Eaker; and her daughter-in-law, Mary Cooke.

Mrs. Cooke is survived by two sons, Jerry Cooke of Chattanooga and Wyman Cooke of East Ridge; three daughters, Sheryl Langford of Ooltewah, Shirley Eaker and Donna Cantrell, both of Ringgold, Ga.; six grandchildren; five stepgrandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and 10 stepgreat-grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters, Hester Lipps of Fort Oglethorpe and Addie Belle Whitfield of Pineville, Ark.; a brother, Eudell Fletcher of Mountain Home, Ark.; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Dodds Avenue Chapel of Turner Funeral Home with the Rev. Kenneth Bales officiating. Interment will follow at Chattanooga National Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Arrangements by Turner Funeral Home, Dodds Avenue Chapel.

Events

Birth12 Feb 1919Buford, Baxter Co., Arkansas
Residence1920Buford, Baxter Co., Arkansas
Residence1930Buford, Baxter Co., Arkansas
Marriage12 Oct 1940Mountain Home, Baxter Co., Arkansas - Donald Nathan Cooke
Death16 Oct 2003East Ridge, Hamilton, Tennessee
BurialChattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., Tennessee

Families

SpouseDonald Nathan Cooke (1918 - 1977)
ChildJerry Clifford Cooke (1941 - )
ChildShirley Karen Cooke (1944 - )
ChildSheryl Lyn Cooke (1948 - )
ChildDonna Gayle Cooke (1956 - )
ChildWyman Dale Cooke (1963 - )

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