Aiken, SC-Funeral services for Mr. George A. Cook will be held Sunday, May 26, 2002 at 2 PM at George Funeral Homes, Inc., Historic Downtown Chapel, 211 Park Ave., SW, Aiken, SC, with Rev. Leo Wood officiating. Interment will follow in Rocky Springs Baptist Church Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Neley Siegler, Tony Corley, Gene Morgan, Kenny Williams, Clarence Shealy, and George Raborn, Jr. The family will receive friends Saturday, May 25, 2002 from 5-8 PM at the funeral home. Mr. Cook, 59, of Aiken, SC, husband of Mrs. Alberta Austin Cook, died Thursday, night, May 23, 2002 at Aiken Regional Medical Centers. Born in and a lifelong resident of Aiken County, he was a son of the late Albert Otto Cook and the late Ethel Lucile Coker Cook. George had been a metal fabricator with OMC for fourteen years prior to his health declining and was a member of Rocky Springs Baptist Church. He enjoyed fishing and music. Surviving are his wife Mrs. Alberta Cook, sons, Daniel George Cook and Albert Otto Cook, both of Aiken, SC; daughters, Celena Grace Cook Snipes, Aiken, SC, Teresa M. Bunch, Holly Hill, SC, Cynthia A. George, Walterboro, SC, Sharon E. Murray, Aiken, SC; Loretta A. Beckett, Aiken, SC, and Karen D. Urbano, Aiken, SC; devoted brother, James R. Cook and his fiancée, Joan, Aiken, SC; brothers and sisters-in-law, Albert E. Austin, Walterboro, SC, Lurline E. Bunch, Holly Hill, SC, Jeanie L. Overlock, Summerville, SC, Raymond L. Austin, Ridgeville, SC, Ernie R. Austin, California, Julia M. Martin, Aynor, SC, Nellie W. Heape, Cross, SC, and Wilbur L. Austin, Holly, Hill, SC; grandchildren, Kari Driggers, Heather Cook, Oakley Snipes, Danielle Cook, Colie Cook, Rhonda Ferguson, Angela Bunch, Ronnie Bunch, Drew Murray, Randy Murray, Katrina Murray, Teri Murray, Andy Murray, Jasmine Murray, Staci Bunch, Evett Middleton, Tyshia Guess, and Cheryl Beckett, two great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Memorials in memory of Mr. Cook may be made to The American Cancer Society, P.O. Drawer K., Aiken, SC 29802.