Helen Magdalene (Wright-Weiderman) Cook

Longtime Moses Lake resident Helen Cook, 89, passed away March 6, 2005 at Samaritan Hospital.

Born July 5, 1915 to Frank and Magdalene Wright in Maplewood, Ore., Helen grew up in logging camps in Oregon and in the Longview and Castle Rock, Wash. areas. She attended rural county schools until attending high school in Castle Rock.

Helen married her high school sweetheart, Leonard Cook, on April 12, 1935. They lived in the Castle Rock area, where their two children — Gene and Beth — were born.

The family moved to Moses Lake in 1949. Helen's life was spent living and working beside Leonard at the Phillips 66 service station they owned at Broadway and Alder. They sold their business and retired in 1979.

Helen was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Moses Lake, was active in Amaranth and Job's Daughters, a longtime member of the Moses Lake Yacht Club, Washington state Grange, Eastern Star and Ladies Auxiliary Fraternal Order of Eagles. She enjoyed knitting, bowling and growing roses. Helen kept her bookkeeping skills fine-tuned working for local businesses. She became a resident of Hearthstone Inn in Feb. 2004.

Helen was preceded in death by Leonard, her husband of 64 years.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Gene and Faye Cook of Sequim; one daughter, Beth Jantzen of Lincoln, Neb.; five grandchildren and their spouses: Laura and Patrick Zoellner of Boise, Idaho, Kris and Greg Burns of Seattle, Gwen and Peter Mlynek of Moorestown, N.J., Teresa and Cory Sacca of Wavery, Neb. and Glen Cook of South Korea; two step-grandsons, John and Oliver Burns of Portland, Ore.; and nine great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held Saturday, March 12 at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Moses Lake with pastor Eric Frey officiating. The family suggests memorials in Helen's memory be made to the Leonard Cook Amaranth Scholarship Permanent Fund or First Presbyterian Church.