Alonzo David Cook

MR. ALONZO DAVID COOK, 83 of MT. GILEAD, NC (Wadeville Community), passed away Tuesday, April 30, 2019 at the Autumn Care Nursing Home in Biscoe, NC.

Funeral Services will be held 2:00 pm Sunday, May 5, 2019 at the Roper Grove AME Zion Church,  196 Roper Grove Church Road, MT. Gilead, NC.

Interment will follow in the Bruton Cemetery in MT. Gilead, NC (Wadeville Community).

A public viewing will be held 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm Saturday, May 4, 2019 at  Harris Funeral Home & Cremations of MT. Gilead, NC.

Alonzo, the youngest of eight children born to the late Edgar Ray Cook and Annie Martin Cook, was born on Monday, November 25, 1935 in Montgomery County, NC.  He exchanged time for eternity on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 in the Autumn Care of Biscoe, NC.

He attended Roper Grove AME Zion Church and attended Wadeville School at an early age.

He was employed as a Merchant Marine for 26 years, where he retired, as a baker and cook and employed by Ogleby Norton now known as Carmeuse and Columbia Transportation. While on the Merchant Marines, he was taking supplies to Vietnam for the soldiers.   After returning to Mt Gilead, he became an entreprenuer.  He owned aparments and  Hot Dog Heaven and he was known as the "Cookie Man".

He was preceded in death by his parents; six brothers, Fletcher, Woodrow, Monroe, Robert, Homer and Paul  and one sister, Pauline Willmore; a grandson Josh and a granddaughter, Tina.

He will be sorely missed by his wife of 41 years, Elizabeth Chambers Cook of the home; son, Algernon Greene of Boston, MA , Conroy Christian of East Orange, NJ and daughter, La'Fre Cook of the home; faithful niece, Felicia Chambers of Mt. Gilead, NC; sisters-in-law, Vaughn Cook of Biscoe, NC and Carolyn Cook of Mt. Gilead, NC and Lois Gillespie (James) of West End, NC; brothers-in-law, Homer Chambers (Margaret) of Mt. Gilead, NC and Jimmy Chambers of Sanford,NC ; 7 grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.