BioA: Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie (40^th - 1962)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Cook, Stephens, Ludovic, Gallagher

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) October 18, 1962

Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie (40^th - 10 October 1962)

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Cook celebrated their 40^th wedding anniversary Wednesday.  They were married in Chamberlain, S. D., October 10, 1922, and came immediately to Clark County, locating on a farm six miles southwest of Neillsville in the Town of Hewett.

They have four children: Mrs. Tom (Ruth) Stephens of Georgia; Mrs. Peter (Dorothy) Ludovic of Pine Valley, William of Rt. 2 Granton, and Mrs. William M. (Lillian) Gallagher of Overlin, Kans.  They also have nine grandchildren.

Joining in the anniversary party Wednesday evening were Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ludovic and sons, Mr. and Mrs. William Cook and children and Mr. and Mrs. William Gallagher and children.

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Gallagher and children, Michael, Sharon, Maureen and Peggy, of Overlin, Kans., returned home Saturday following a four-day visit at the Leslie Cook home.  They moved this month to Overlin from Washington, D. C., where they had made their home 11 years.  Mrs. Gallagher, the former Lillian Cook is a graduate of Neillsville High School. She went to the national capitol to accept work after graduation and remained there after her marriage.