Robert “Bob” Milton Cooke, 86, of Kearneysville, West Virginia, passed away Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at the Jefferson Medical Center, Ranson, West Virginia. Born October 5, 1928, in Blairstown, New Jersey, he was the son of the late Walter Samuel Cooke and Ruth Edna Wildrick Cooke.
Bob served in the U.S. Navy and graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1952, with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, the Lafayette College Alumni Assoc., and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He helped design launch pads 14 and 15 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Florida. He volunteered for the Boy Scouts of America for more than 30 years, for the Red Cross in both Florida and New Orleans during hurricane disasters, and at the Pima Air and Space Museum, in Tucson, Arizona for 3 years. He was a member of the Wally Byam Caravan Club International and, after retiring; he and his wife traveled in an Airstream Motor Home and visited every state in the Continental United States, and Western and Central Canada.
He is survived by his wife, Virginia Isabel Wester Cooke, at home; one son, Robert J. Cooke, and wife Sylvia, of Aurora, Colorado; two daughters: Carol Danna, of Newport News, Virginia, and Sandra Greene, and husband Joseph, of Charles Town, West Virginia; two sisters: Adonis Dean, and husband Bert, of Blairstown, New Jersey, and Elizabeth Shotwell, and husband Lester, of Williamsburg, Virginia; six grandchildren, eight great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers.
Services and interment will be private. Arrangements are by Jefferson Chapel Funeral Home, Ranson, West Virginia.