(1918 – 2013)
Mildred Carl Cook was born to Henry and Elfrieda (Momm) Carl. Mildred “Millie” grew up in Irvington , Neptune and Hanover, New Jersey. She studied at Miami University for a year and at the Berkley Secretarial School. Returning from her work in Newark, New Jersey, on the bus, the Sunday School Superintendent at Hanover’s First Presbyterian Church invited Mildred to a service. Soon she became part of The Young Peoples Group which was already known as “Mrs. Cook’s Matrimonial Club”. It “worked” for Mildred and Mrs. Cook’s son, F. Seymour Cook. The couple married in 1939. They lived in the home Seymour’s father built in 1910 in which they raised their three daughters, Ellen, Phyllis and Jean. Mildred was very active in the Presbyterian Church; directing Vacation Bible School, teaching and being Sunday School Superintendent and founding the Harvest Festival and Fair. She also was a founder of the local PTA and chaperoned numerous dances and school activities.