Submitted by: Gerald D. Hobson

From the

South Bend Tribune

South Bend, Indiana

(St. Joseph County)

Monday, December 8, 1980

Mrs. Zillah Mumby Cook

Mrs. Zillah Mumby Cook, 92, a former Mishawaka resident, died at 4:30 a.m. today in the Hamilton Grove Retirement Center, New Carlisle, after a brief illness.  Mrs. Cook moved to the retirement center recently from 913 Lincoln Way E., where she had lived for 50 years.  She was born on June 13, 1888, in Stallinborough, Lincolnshire, England, and moved to Mendon, Mich. in 1894.  She moved to Mishawaka in 1912.  She was married as Zillah Mumby on Sept. 13, 1913, in Mishawaka, to Fred J. Cook, former St. Joseph Couunty commissioner, who died in 1943.  She is survived by two sons, Robert J. and Harold F. Cook, both of Mishawaka; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; a brother, E. Wesley and attended the Kalamazoo Normal School in Menden.  She also taught for six years Mumby of Watsonville, Calif.; and two sisters, Mrs. Elsie Randall and Mrs. Genevieve Ripple, both of Jackson, Mich.

Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuuesday in the Everett Ballard Funeral Home.  Services are planned at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the First United Methodist Church Chapel of the Good Shepherd.  Rev. Phillips B. Smith, pastor, will officiate.  Memorial contributions may be made to the memorial fund of the church of which Mrs. Cook was a member.  She also was a member of the city's Women's Club, Garden Club and Antique Club.

Mrs. Cook taught for a year at the former Penn Twp. Cook School.  She graduated from Menden High School in 1906 in Menden.