Rita Louise Cook 
Rita Louise was born on June 3rd, 1953 in Rogers,Texas. Rita Louise's father was John Vernon Cook and her mother was Ruby Underwood. Her maternal grandparents were Perry Monroe Underwood and LeaNora Gregory. She was an only child. She died at the age of 36 on April 23rd, 1990 in Temple,Bell Co.,Texas. She was buried in Val Verde Baptist Church Cementry.General Notes
Rita never married. She worked a nurse in a V.A. Hospital in Temple. She died of Cancer. She ask my mother and father to help her with the process of dieing and to help her mother , my fathers sister, with the fact that she would die before her mother. Rita was the apple of Vernon eye. When he married my Aunt Ruby my grandmother was very upset and even more so when she found out that Ruby was to have a child. My Aunt and Uncle married very late in life and My Aunt Ruby had polio as a child. My Grandmother did not think that Ruby could carry and take care of a child. I think that my Grandmother loved this grandchild over the rest of her grandchildren. I remember how my mother commented how she changed her attitude about this child once it came into her life. I always felt sorry for Rita because her father died when she was in her teens and that she felt she had to take care of her mother for the rest of her life. She did have one relationship with a married man that never came to any thing. She never had children. Just her work and her mother. I was very proud of how my mother and father took care of Rita in her last days. Rita ask my mother not to tell her mother how sick she was and not to let her know that the cancer had moved into her brain. My Aunt was very angre with my mother when she found out that my mother had done this for Rita. My Mother told her that she could only honor her last wishes and request just as she would honor Rubys last wished who was also dieing of cancer. Rita died 3 years before her mother. It was very hard for Ruby to lose Vernon and Rita.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.19 Mar 1904 d.10 Sep 1969 in Temple,Bell Co.,Texas
- b.03 Jun 1953 in Rogers,Texas d.23 Apr 1990 in Temple,Bell Co.,Texas
- b.1779 in Delware or Maryland d.20 Dec 1862 in Taylor Co.,Kentucky
- b.02 Apr 1808 in Green Co.,Kentucky d.13 Jul 1866 in Tayler Co.,Kentucky
- b.1777 in North Carolina d.1828
- b.30 Nov 1841 in Green Co.,Kentucky d.26 Jan 1916 in Taylor Co.,Kentucky
- b.1812 in Kentucky
- b.10 Jun 1872 in Hardin Co.,Tyler Co.,Kentucky d.23 Aug 1950 in Temple,Bell Co.,Texas
- b.1791 in Greenville Co.,South Carolina d.1870 in Taylor Co.,Kentucky
- b.1822 in Green Co.,Kentucky d.1880 in Taylor Co.,Kentucky
- b.1797 in Tennessee d.1870 in Taylor Co.,Kentucky
- b.18 Feb 1847 in Green Co.,Kentucky d.16 Feb 1908 in Green Co.,Kentucky
- b.1822 in Green Co.,Kentucky d.02 Oct 1859 in Taylor Co.,Kentucky
- b.19 Dec 1912 in Bell Co.,Texas d.16 Aug 1993 in Temple,Bell Co.,Texas
- b.02 Jun 1836 in Jefferson Co.,Georgia d.23 Mar 1882 in Corpus Christi,Texas
- b.03 Oct 1859 in Macon,Jefferson Co.,Georgia d.20 Feb 1938 in Val Verde,Bell Co.,Texas
- b.10 May 1835 in Athens Georgia d.05 Aug 1899 in Beeville,Texas
- b.14 Sep 1879 in Corpus Christi,Texas d.24 Mar 1956 in Rogers,Texas
- b.1775 in Moore Co.,North Carolina d.25 Oct 1825 in Wayne Co.,Mississippi
- b.06 May 1807 in Moore Co.,North Carolina d.18 Mar 1867 in Buckholts,Miliam Co.,Texas
- b.1780 in Richmond Co.,North Carolina d.1819 in Scott Co.,North Carolina
- b.18 Jan 1855 in Bell Co.,Texas d.08 Apr 1939 in Val Verde,Milam Co.,Texas
- b.04 Apr 1811 in Scott Co.,Mississippi d.04 Mar 1873 in Bell Co.,Texas
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