June Cook

June Hays Cook, 87, passed away Thursday evening, Oct. 6, 2015, at her home. Mrs. Cook was born in Birmingham, Ala., to the late Joe Hill and Grace Berry Hays on Feb. 7, 1928. Shortly thereafter the Family returned to Chattooga County, where Mrs. Cook continued to live for the duration of her life. Mrs. Cook attended public schools in Summerville, as well as Mantreat Preparatory School in Mantreat, N.C. She continued her education at Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, and subsequently began her teaching career. On June 8, 1948, June Hays and Bobby Lee Cook were married in the Summerville Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Cook devoted the time and energy to help her husband and open his law office. Over the years she gave birth to and raised three children and assisted her husband in the establishment of his legal career. Mrs. Cook was predeceased by her sister, Martha Jo Adams, and her son, Bobby Lee Cook Jr. She is survived by her loving husband of 67 years, Bobby Lee Cook; her daughters, Kristina Cook Graham and Sara Cook Williams; her grandchildren, Sarah Holston OReagan, Jessica Cook Hale, Christopher Sutton Connelly, Jeffery Scott Connelly, Elizabeth Connelly Turner and Anna Lee Williams; great-grandchildren, Patrick Aidan Fell, Morgan Aeron Hale, Lillian Grace Connelly, and Fiana Bess-Connelly; one nephew, James and Brenda Cordle Adams, also survive. The funeral services will be held at the Summerville First United Methodist Church, at 3 p.m. Sunday, with Dr. Roger Kvam officiating. Interment will follow at the Cloudland Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Mrs. Cooks two grandsons, Sutton and Jeffrey Connelly, and Richard Lindsey, Mac Myers, Gary McConnell and Eddie Hurley. Earle Rainwater Funeral Home, Summerville, in charge of arrangements