Rose (Newland) Cook

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Rose Marie (Newland) Cook was born September 16, 1927.

• She is the daughter of Charles Otis Newland (1899 - 1975) and Blanche Elizabeth (LaDuke) Newland (1907 - 1995).
• She married Gayle Eugene Cook (1927 - 2016) on 14 February, 1948 in Baldwin, Douglas. Kansas.
• She died December 5, 2015, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas.

Obituary from The Ottawa Herald December 7, 2015.

Rose Marie (Newland) Cook, 88, died Dec. 5, 2015, in Topeka.

The family plans to meet with friends 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, at Worden United Methodist Church, Baldwin City, Kansas. Funeral services are set for 10 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, at Osage City First United Methodist Church, Osage City, Kansas. Burial is set for 2 p.m. at Oakwood Cemetery, Baldwin City, Kansas.

Rose Marie was born Sept. 16, 1927, on a farm near Baldwin, Kansas, to parents Charley Otis Newland and Blanche Elizabeth LaDuke Newland. She lived in various places in Kansas as her father worked as a foreman over the mules and horses used on road construction crews in the 1930s. She moved to Braymer, Missouri, in November of 1937 from Abilene, Kansas.

Rose Marie graduated from Braymer High School in 1945 and returned to Baldwin, Kansas. At 17 years of age, she began teaching in a one-room school house (including teaching her sister, Charlene) while taking summer classes at Baker University. She then went on to teach at Edgerton, Kansas, and Osage City, Kansas.

Rose Marie worked for and lived with a “wonderful old couple,” Fred and Jessie Wightman, in Braymer, Missouri, while attending high school. She also remembered a special teacher, Lee Simkin, in Braymer.

She completed her bachelor of science in education in 1968 at Emporia Teachers College and her masters in early childhood education in 1980 at Emporia State University. She also completed a masters in special education with an emphasis on learning disabled in 1985 at Emporia State University.

Rose Marie taught from 1982 to 1992 in the Davenport, Iowa, school system — making a total of 33 years teaching, with long runs in the third grade, fifth grade, kindergarten and junior high emotionally disabled classes.

Rose Marie married Gayle Eugene Cook 7 a.m. on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 1948, at Ives Chapel in Baldwin, Kansas. Their children are Gaylene Rose Tunison, Austin, Texas; Charles Robert (Deborah) Cook, Wellsville, Kansas; Theodore Ray Cook, MD (Karolyn, MD), Newton, Kansas; and Fred Samuel (Amy) Cook, Olathe, Kansas. Rose Marie has 14 grandchildren, five foster grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. She has several others she considers her own, including Timothy James Olson, Las Vegas, Nevada; M. Eugene Tunison (Sheryl), Oakton, Virginia; and others too many to name.

Rose Marie is preceded in death by an infant grandson, Corban Jonathan Cook; foster daughter, Barbara Ann Martinez, her husband Richard, and their son Richard; parents, Charley and Blanche Newland; her brother, Leonard Newland, and his wife Myrtle Lee.

Rose Marie was baptized at Warden, Kansas, in the Evangelical Brethren Church at 18. She has been a member of the Osage City United Methodist Church since September 1956, except for 10 years while in Davenport, Iowa, where she was a member of Christ United Methodist Church.

Rose Marie’s grandchildren are John (Anne, MD) Tunison, Farmers Branch, Texas, Sarah (Tom) Crawley, Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, Randall (Rachel) Cook, Topeka, Kansas, Robert Cook, Topeka, Kansas, Samantha (Mun Lai) Chong, Gardner, Kansas, Eric Cook, David Cook, Isaac Cook, and Max Cook, all of Olathe, Kansas, Christopher (Anna) Cook, Clarkston, Michigan, Caleb Cook, Wichita, Kansas, Chad Cook, Manhattan, Kansas, and Katy Cook, Newton, Kansas.

Rose Marie has two surviving sisters, Mildred (Rev. Floyd) Couch, Braymer, Missouri, and Charlene (Keith) Rockhold, Centropolis, Kansas.

The family suggests memorial contributions be made to United Methodist Church of Osage City, the children’s section of the Osage City Library, or the Corbin Clinic in Oaxaca, Mexico in care of Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin City, KS 66006. Condolences may be sent through www.lamb-roberts.com.

Rose Marie is perhaps best remembered by the phrase oft used to describe her, “She never met a child she didn’t love.”

Sources

• First hand

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X73B-T7F : accessed 26 December 2019), Rose Marie Newland in household of Chas O Newland, Willow Springs, Douglas, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 25, sheet 10B, line 62, family 247, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 700; FHL microfilm 2,340,435.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K73L-6FH : 28 July 2019), Rosa Marie Newland in household of Charles Newland, Davis Township, Caldwell, Caldwell, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 13-4, sheet 7B, line 72, family 161, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2091.

• "United States Census, 1950," Rose Marie Cook, Edgerton, Johnson, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 46-8, sheet 6, line 21, family 60, Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950, [1].

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 06 January 2021), memorial page for Rose Marie Newland Cook (16 Sep 1927–5 Dec 2015), Find a Grave Memorial no. 155783554, citing Oakwood Cemetery, Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas, USA ; Maintained by June (contributor 47283492) . https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=155783554

Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Baldwin City, Douglas County, Kansas, USA