Thomas Cook, City Foundry Founder, Dies

Thomas E. Cook, 84, who was for more than 35 years president of the Ann I aor Foundry Co. at 1327 Jones Dr., died late yesterday afternoon in Huron Lodge, following a long illness. His home was at I I 300 Linda Vista. Mr. Cook was born on Nov. 8, 1887, I I in Cherson, Russia and came to the I I United States in 1909, working as an I I iron molder in New York, Philadelphia, I Detroit and Lansing before I I ing the Ann Arbor firm. He was a member of Beth Israel gregation, and was active in several I service and educational organizations. These included B'nai Brith, the Anti I Defamation League, Hillel Foundation, I the Workmans Circle Group of Detroit, I of which he helped to organize and which I later granted him the León A. Cousens award for distinguished community I service, the international Organization of I Rehabilitaron through Training, the Gold I Rule and Golden Arch Masons, the I tional Conference of Christians and Jews, I Histabrut, the Ann Arbor Elks, the I YMCA, City of Hope, the American I ish Committee and the Ann Arbor 1 munity Center. Mr. Cook was married in Lansing in I 1910 to Esther (Noll) Cook, who 1 vives. i He is also survived by a son, Dr. Harry Cook, and a daughter, Mrs. Henrietta I Sklar, both of Ann Arbor, and by three I grandchildren and two 1 dren. Services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Beth Israel Synagogue, 1429 Hill. Burial will be in Beth Israel Memorial I Gardens. The family requests memorial 1 tributions be sent to the Organization of Rehabñitation through Training, in care of 530 Hillspur, Ann Arbor. - -