9 Jul 1915 – 7 Nov 1994
Husband of Elizabeth May Cardon
Clint Cook
Clint S. Cook, 79, of Mesa died Monday, Nov. 7, 1994, in Mesa. Mr. Cook, a pipe fitter and U.S. Army veteran, was born in Vernal, Utah.
Survivors include his wife, Carolyn; daughter Juanita Kerr; stepdaughters Virginia Arwine and B. J. Erkkila; son Val; stepson Dean Maute; Mother Leora; 13 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Lakeshore Mortuary handled arrangements.
-Published i the Mesa Trib, Thursday, November 10, 1994, Section B page 5.
Clint S Cook
Contributed by Val Cook
Clint my father was a very gifted man. He could do anything he put his mind to do. He learned from his father carpentry, but his love was working with metal. He was very mechanical, and he taught himself to weld. In the sixties he converted his international pickup to burn propane himself. He is the only man I know to do this. After he retired, he became a silver smith and made jewelry.
Dad had made a septic tank pumper and had a contract with the Forest Department to clean campground’s outhouses in Copper Basin in Idaho. This was a very remote area in Idaho where two hunters got snowed in one year, and only one of them walked out 56 days later. Dad had his septic tank pumper mounted on an old 1948 Ford one ton truck. We were at work in the fall of the year way out in the boondocks when the truck came to a stop. Dad discovered that the fuel pump was bad. He had a spare one but lacked the proper tools to change it. Well, he told me to start walking out to get help, while he stayed with the truck. So off I went down the road, I was gone about an hour. when I hear the truck coming. He had bent a crescent wrench 90 degrees, which allowed him to reach the bolts on the fuel pump.
-Published at familysearch.org ID: KWC5-GZC
National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, Plot: Section 18A Site 67
