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Elizabeth Cook "Cookie" Cason
Cason, Elizabeth Cook
Feb. 19, 1919 - Feb. 15, 2011
Published in Herald Tribune from February 18 to February 19, 2011
Elizabeth "Cookie" Cook Cason died Feb. 15 of complications from
pneumonia. She was born on Feb. 19, 1919 in Ohio to parents Chauncey E.
and Rella Morris Cook.
She is survived by her sons Steven Cook Bassett and his wife Sherry
and their daughter Erin, all of Plantation, Fla., and David Hays Bassett and
his wife Doris, their two children, Mallory Bassett Ciccotelli and husband
Matt, of Houston, Texas, and Hays Edwards Bassett and wife Paris, as well
as two great-grandsons Jacob Sainson, and Ayden Bassett.
Cookie, as she was affectionately known all her life by her friends, grew
up in the nomadic life of a career military family, living in numerous postings
including Front Royal, Va., Panama Canal Zone, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas,
and Washington, D.C. where she graduated from Western High School.
Cookie graduated from The College of William and Mary in 1940.
She married Lt. James Albert Bassett, the father of her two sons in
December, 1940 and began the life of an Army wife, living in Ft. Benning,
Ga., Pinehurst, N.C., Alexandria, Va., Leavenworth, Kansas, Carlyle
Barracks, Pa., Okinawa, and Ft. Bragg, N.C. In 1954, Cookie was widowed
when her husband was killed in active duty. Cookie and her two sons
moved to Bradenton, Fla. shortly thereafter to be with her parents who had
retired to the area.
She spent the next 20 years raising her two sons, then caring for her
elderly mother, all the while working at Griffith Cline Funeral Home,
maintaining an active membership in Christ Episcopal Church, and serving
her community through Entre Nous club.
In 1975, she rekindled a college romance when Captain Arthur Caldwell
"Casey" Cason invited her to their 35th reunion. They married a year later in
Bruton Parrish Chapel in Colonial Williamsburg. They enjoyed 29 years
together, living most of that time in Bradenton.
Cookie was a volunteer at Selby Gardens where she pursued her
passion of caring for and propagating orchids. She and Casey were very
active in the Orchid Society, and she dazzled her friends with a collection of
hundreds of orchids around her home.
Cookie is also survived by her stepchildren Jim and Carmen Cason, Bill
and Chris Cason, Linda and Tim Gadell, Nancy and Doug Eckerd, and
Susan Cason, along with eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be at 9 a.m. today at Griffith Cline Funeral Home,
Bradenton Chapel, followed by the service there and graveside at 10 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hospice of Southwest
Florida, or The Selby Botanical Gardens.
Cason, Elizabeth Cook
Feb. 19, 1919 - Feb. 15, 2011
Published in Herald Tribune from February 18 to February 19, 2011
Elizabeth "Cookie" Cook Cason died Feb. 15 of complications from
pneumonia. She was born on Feb. 19, 1919 in Ohio to parents Chauncey E.
and Rella Morris Cook.
She is survived by her sons Steven Cook Bassett and his wife Sherry
and their daughter Erin, all of Plantation, Fla., and David Hays Bassett and
his wife Doris, their two children, Mallory Bassett Ciccotelli and husband
Matt, of Houston, Texas, and Hays Edwards Bassett and wife Paris, as well
as two great-grandsons Jacob Sainson, and Ayden Bassett.
Cookie, as she was affectionately known all her life by her friends, grew
up in the nomadic life of a career military family, living in numerous postings
including Front Royal, Va., Panama Canal Zone, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas,
and Washington, D.C. where she graduated from Western High School.
Cookie graduated from The College of William and Mary in 1940.
She married Lt. James Albert Bassett, the father of her two sons in
December, 1940 and began the life of an Army wife, living in Ft. Benning,
Ga., Pinehurst, N.C., Alexandria, Va., Leavenworth, Kansas, Carlyle
Barracks, Pa., Okinawa, and Ft. Bragg, N.C. In 1954, Cookie was widowed
when her husband was killed in active duty. Cookie and her two sons
moved to Bradenton, Fla. shortly thereafter to be with her parents who had
retired to the area.
She spent the next 20 years raising her two sons, then caring for her
elderly mother, all the while working at Griffith Cline Funeral Home,
maintaining an active membership in Christ Episcopal Church, and serving
her community through Entre Nous club.
In 1975, she rekindled a college romance when Captain Arthur Caldwell
"Casey" Cason invited her to their 35th reunion. They married a year later in
Bruton Parrish Chapel in Colonial Williamsburg. They enjoyed 29 years
together, living most of that time in Bradenton.
Cookie was a volunteer at Selby Gardens where she pursued her
passion of caring for and propagating orchids. She and Casey were very
active in the Orchid Society, and she dazzled her friends with a collection of
hundreds of orchids around her home.
Cookie is also survived by her stepchildren Jim and Carmen Cason, Bill
and Chris Cason, Linda and Tim Gadell, Nancy and Doug Eckerd, and
Susan Cason, along with eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be at 9 a.m. today at Griffith Cline Funeral Home,
Bradenton Chapel, followed by the service there and graveside at 10 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hospice of Southwest
Florida, or The Selby Botanical Gardens.