Recollections by Jean Cook

Jean & Bill Cook

Jean Ford Cook was engaged to another man before she met Bill Cook.  Her father met a man on the bus who was a diamond merchant in NY.  This man gave her father some diamonds to take home for Jean to look at.  Then, Jean and her father went to this man’s house to pick out a diamond.  They chose a perfect blue-white stone.  After they broke the engagement, she gave the ring back.  Her father told her “I think you’re in love with the ring!”  Jean met her husband, William (Bill) Cook at work when they both worked at Equitable.  They dated for about a year before they were married.  They were engaged in January and married on June 26, 1965. 

Cook Family

Bill’s mother died of stomach cancer in approximately 1970.  Her daughter, Carol Cook Tesoriero, now has stomach cancer as well.  Bill’s father died of a heart attack when he was 72 or 74 years old, approximately 1975.