Obituary: Cook-Mason, Barbara T.
Age 96
Committal services with vault inurnment will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday May 9, 2014 at the Colfax Cemetery in Colfax, Washington.
Barbara was born in Colfax on January 17, 1918 to Albert and Lucinda Schweiger.
She grew up in Colfax and graduated from Colfax High School.
She married Bennie Cook on November 25, 1936 and they lived on the family farm near St. John and raised their two children Marilyn and Ron.
Barbara was a member of the Wednesday Club, the Wheatland Grange and the Altar Society.
She was also a gardener and loved quilting.
After Bennie passed away in 1972 she moved to Spokane where she volunteered at Sacred Heart Medical Center, learned to play golf and enjoyed dancing.
Barbara married Chuck Mason and the couple enjoyed golfing, dancing and snow-birding in California.
Barbara is survived by her son, Ron (Janice) Cook of Thornton; son-in-law, Dick McManus of Cle Elum; brother, Louie Schweiger of Richland; sister, Dorothy Ray of Liberty Lake; as well as six grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her precious daughter, Marilyn McManus; husbands, Bennie Cook and Chuck Mason; and her companion, Dick Geisa.
Memorial contributions in Barbara’s honor are suggested to Hospice of Spokane or to the American Cancer Society.
BRUNING FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY of COLFAX has been entrusted with funeral arrangements.
Online condolences may be left at www.bruningfuneralhome.com