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Richard Cook Obituary
September 20, 1950 - April 25, 2025
Richard "Gary" Garrett Cook, 74, of Radford, passed away Friday, April 25, 2025. He was a U. S. Army veteran and taught Physical Education and Art in Montgomery County Schools. He received a B.A. degree from Hamden-Sydney College, a B.S. degree from Old Dominion University, and his Master's degree from VPI&SU (VaTech). Gary loved spending time with his cousins and their children as well as playing golf, sports, music, reading, and painting, enjoying all types of art.
Gary was preceded in death by his parents, Jay D. Cook, Jr. and Florence G. Cook; and brother, J. D. "Trip" Cook III.
Survivors include his cousins and their children.
A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at Oak Grove Cemetery in Lexington, Virginia.
The Cook family is in the care of Mullins Funeral Home & Crematory in Radford. www.mullinsfuneralhome.com
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Tim Jones
May 13, 2025
This news is truly sorrowful and sad.
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Gary was a reserve point guard on Westtown School's varsity basketball team, and was instrumental in winning that team's only overtime game, against St. Elizabeth's from Wilmington, DE. By memory nearly sixty years later, so I am confident of the substance but no longer certain I have it verbatim, the headline on the story in the Wilmington paper's sports section was something like, "Westtown's 5'5" Cook sinks St. Elizabeth's five." He kept getting fouled and hit both end of the one and one every time. He scored ten points in the OT. Cool as a cucumber in a refrigerator and perfect from the line every time. That team ended its season undefeated.
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