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- The Herald, February 17, 2011
Elizabeth Cook "Cookie" Cason
Elizabeth "Cookie" Cook Cason, Elizabeth Cook Cason died February 15 of complications from pneumonia. She was born on February 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, Florida, 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, KS, 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, NC, Alexandria, VA, Leavenworth, KS, Carlyle Barracks, PA, Okinawa, and Ft. Bragg, NC. In 1954, Cookie was widowed when her husband was killed in active duty. Cookie and her two sons moved to Bradenton, Florida shortly thereafter to be with her parents who had retired to the area. She spent the next twenty 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. Coolkie 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 eleven great grandchildren.
Visitation will be at 9 AM Friday at Griffith Cline Funeral Home, Bradenton Chapel, followed by the service there and graveside at 10 AM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hospice of Southwest Florida, or The Selby Botanical Gardens.
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