2007
Jeanne H. Cook, 73, who was an assistant public affairs officer at the old Atomic Energy Commission in Germantown, died of
complications of diabetes April 27 at the Methodist Home in Washington. She was a District resident.
She began as an administrative assistant at the Atomic Energy Commission and worked there about 30 years. She worked
temporarily at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania after the 1979 accident there. She also managed a
Combined Federal Campaign that included the White House staff. She retired in 1987.
After retirement, Ms. Cook worked part time at the National College of Cardiology and volunteered extensively. She worked for
Bethesda Help, which assists elderly disabled and low-income residents; served for many years as vice president of her local
citizen's association; volunteered as an usher at Arena Stage; drove a tourist service cart around the National Mall for the Park
Service; and for many years helped an indigent blind woman with grocery shopping and the search for housing.
No personal appeal for her help went unheeded, family members said.
Ms. Cook was born at her grandmother's home in Sunbury, Pa., and lived all her life in the Washington area. She graduated
from McKinley Technical High School in the District and at night studied calculus and related subjects at George Washington
University.
A skilled craftswoman, Ms. Cook enjoyed needlepoint, quilting, painting and stained-glass making.
Survivors include two sisters, Margaret Peggy McGinthy of Hyattsville and Marianne 'Mimi' Cook of Bethesda; and a brother,
Alfred 'Bud' Cook of Arcadia, Fla.