Polly Lassiter Cook

Polly was the best--friend, mentor, teacher. The lives she touched must be counted in the thousands or more. I am so thankful to have known her..she certainly changed my life and I am thankful to have had a visit with her not long before she left us. She was the same as always, thinking of others and their lives. I will always miss her phone call on my birthday. We loved you Polly!

I am so thankful to have met Polly Cook at Bryan Memorial UMC in Miami, Florida. As a young lady in my early 20's, stepping into adulthood, I was fortunate to be surrounded by many great, Godly, older women, sharing their faith and their lives with me. Polly was certainly high on that list. Her love for God, His Word and the lives of women all around the world was very evident to me. While my involvement in the United Methodist Women in later years would be centered more around social...

What a special lady Polly was. She was an inspiration to so many. When I finished college at UM and didn't really know what I should do next she said - "Why don't you come work at the Wesley Foundation as a US-2?" What a gift to have had that experience and to be part of that community! I appreciate reading the messages of others. Hearing Polly on the phone on our birthdays was a special treat! I am sure her life changed mine for the better. She always said that at her funeral she...

Celebrating a life well lived. We will cherish the memories forever.

I thank God for Polly Lassiter Cook, for your life, for your witness to your faith, for your friendship and for all the great times we shared. The many trips in your Volkswagon up US #27 going to Lakeland, Florida on behalf of UNITED METHODIST WOMEN and other church commitments. When we went on these trips you always called me and said "Ressie Root" this is Polly, just calling to let you know I'm on my way and, if the Lord's willing and the creek don't rise, I'm coming get ya." After which...

I rejoice that Polly is at home with God, but am sad that I will not have the pleasure of her company at lunch at Garfield's anymore. There are not enough superlatives to describe the influence Polly had on my life and the lives of many others. I first knew Polly as my Sunday School teacher at Bryan Memorial Methodist Church in Coconut Grove, Fl, when I was going through a very bad time in my life. How are you in your heart, really is the question with which we started our class. She...

Polly was a wonderful colleague in campus ministry. When I came to the University of Miami in 1970 as the new Lutheran campus pastor, she took us "homeless Lutherans" in and gave us a place for worship, an office, and most significantly, a huge portion of hospitality. Her ministry blessed many lives. May she always be remembered as a "friend of Jesus."

To all who knew and loved Polly: group hug! Wow. What a circle of folks she has touched with her special brand of charm and dynamic style of conversation. I love how she used to say: "Make that make sense. Play like I'm a Martian and I don't know about Jesus and faith and God." She was a mentor and inspiration to my husband and I in college days, and a wise and cheerful elderly friend to the end. I am so thankful to have seen her for a surprise visit last June. All in our family...

When I think of Polly Cook, I always hear her saying, "How are you REALLY?" Polly served as an inspiration and a guide through my four years involvement at the University of Miami Lutheran/Methodist campus ministry, 1974-1978. I am only one of many, many students who grew in faith and life by knowing Polly. I give God thanks for her life and her witness. as Polly would say at one's birthday: Polly, "I celebrate that you were born".
Pr Allie Leitzel
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church...