Funeral services for Fred Thomas Cooke, Jr., 79, were held at 11:00 a.m.., Monday, May 27 at Leland Presbyterian Church. He died Saturday, May 25, in Greenville. Burial was in the North Cleveland Cemetery under the direction of Boone Funeral Home, Leland.
Fred was born in Merigold on October 2, 1933. He was an agricultural economist for the USDA and Mississippi State University at Stoneville for forty-eight years.
He was a proud graduate of Texas A & M and an avid sportsman.
He is survived by his wife of forty-three years Bonnie Naron Cooke; two daughters Phylis Findley and Elaine Butler, and son Fred T. Cooke, III; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.