Home	John & Joan Cook
Family:	John & Lilian Cook		Frederick & Ellen Webb			John & Rose Carney		Edwin & Teresa Cross
	Leslie & Violet Cook					Ernest & Gladys Carney
	John Beverley Cook					Joan Gladys Carney
Born:	23rd February 1934; Woodford, West Ham					7th May 1932; South East-Ham, West Ham
Died:						30th October 2013, aged 81
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Marriage:	1st March 1958; Essex South Western
Children:	Kevin Cook, David Cook

In 1958 John and Joan married at George Lane Baptist church in South Woodford

Peter Smith (best man), Jill Cook, John Cook, Joan Cook, Joy Beazley, Ben Carney

John and Joan wedding, 1958

John and Joan wedding party After they were married Joan and John lived at 14 Vernon Avenue, Woodford Green, before moving to 18 Monmouth Avenue, South Woodford in about 1965.

John and Joan had two sons:

• Kevin Cook born in a thunderstorm on 4th May 1961 at Wanstead hospital

  
  Kevin Cook, 1961

• David Cook born 21st February 1964.

  
  Joan with Kevin and David, 1964

  
  David on Swanage beach with his grandfather Ben Carney

Kevin and David in the garden of Monmouth Avenue in 1967

Both Kevin and David went to Nightingale Infants school, Nightingale Junior school, and then Beal Grammer School for Boys (later Beal High School).

Kevin and David school photograph, about 1970

In about 1976 Joan trained as a teacher and worked at Nightingale Junior School and Woodford Wells school. In 1990 Joan and John retired to Swanage

In about 1990 John and Joan retired and moved to Swanage

Joan contracted bowel cancer and died peacefully in Swanage Hospital on Wednesday 30th October 2013