Christine Hilton Cook, 85, of Fitzgerald, died Friday, May 23 at Dorminy Medical Center in Fitzgerald.
Funeral services will be held 4 P.M. Sunday, May 25 at the Central United Methodist Church in Fitzgerald with Dr. Buddy Cooper and Rev. Steve Waldorf officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-8 Saturday evening at the funeral home.
Mrs. Cook was born April 1, 1923 in Waycross, Georgia to the late C.C. and Leila Walker Hilton. She was a 1939 graduate of Fitzgerald High School and also graduated from South Georgia College. She was retired owner and administrator of the Osceola Nursing Home in Ocilla. She was an active member of Central United Methodist Church and the Friendship Sunday school class.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law: Chris & Lydia Cook of Fitzgerald; two grandsons: Kyle Cook and Mark Cook, both of Fitzgerald; companion and friend: Ed Cox of Fitzgerald; one sister and brother-in-law: Carolyn & Robert Deyo of Collierville, Tennessee; one brother and sister-in-law: Sammie & Leola Hilton of Tifton as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband: Claude B. “Bud” Cook; five brothers: Maxwell Hilton, James Hilton, Sr., Hoit Hilton, Bill Hilton, and Christopher Hilton; and four sisters: Louise Hilton Kirkland, Lois Hilton Carter, Inez Hilton Kirkland, and Virginia Hilton Laminack.