Hattie Beatrice Poole Cooke
CASAR — Mrs. Hattie Beatrice Poole Cooke, 92, of 237 Turner
Road, went to heaven at 3:40 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004, at Cleveland
Regional Medical Center.
A native of Cleveland County, she was a homemaker and was retired from the
textile industry. She was a member of the Casar United Methodist Church. She was
a noted quilt maker and had quilts in every state and several foreign countries.
She was also known for her delicious dried apple fried pies.
She is preceded in death by her former husband Grady Lee Cooke; her parents,
James Henry and Lobelia Wortman Poole; a son, Danny Ray Cooke; four brothers and
three sisters-in-law, Johnny and Minnie Poole, Jimmy and Lima Poole, Ezelle and
Mary Poole, and S.L. Poole; six sisters and four brothers-in-law, Ola and Zeb
Johnson, Margaret “Maggie” and Ambrose Chapman, Minnie and William Perry, Darlus
and Ovie Cooke, Selma Poole and Monnie Ella Poole; four grandsons, Pervie
Philmore Drum II, Jeffery Neal Cooke, Eric Andrew Cooke, and Johnathan Patrick
Cooke, and great granddaughter Mildred Jeanette Evans.
She is survived by fives sons and their wives, Delbert and Versey Cook and Jack
and Marilyn Cooke, all of Shelby, Ralph and Judy Cooke of Charlotte, Hal and Pat
Cooke of Forest City, and Flay and Janet Cooke of Fallston; four daughters and
three sons-in-law, Starlene and Buck Bridges of Kings Mountain, Joyce and Pervie
Drum of Cherryville, Judy and Arthur Ledford of Lawndale, and Shirley Cooke of
Shelby; a sister-in-law, Pauline Poole of Morganton; a special friend, Betty
Travis of Casar; 24 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
A funeral will be today at 2 p.m. at Stamey Funeral Home with the Rev. Larry
Thompson officiating. Burial will follow at Knob Creek United Methodist Church.
The family will receive friends at Stamey Funeral Home immediately following the
service and at other times the family will be at the home of Judy and Arthur
Ledford, 156 E. Stagecoach Trial, Lawndale, NC, 28090.
Memorial gifts can be made to Hospice of Cleveland County, 951 Wendover Heights
Drive, Shelby, NC 28150, or Knob Creek United Methodist Church Cemetery Fund, in
care of Mr. Ruffin Grigg, 1078 Belwood-Lawndale Road, Lawndale, NC 28090, or
Casar United Methodist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 67, Casar, NC, 28020.
