Beautrice Lucille "Lucy" Cook

Beautrice Lucille “Lucy” Cook — beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend — passed away peacefully at her home on May 8, 2026, surrounded by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Her life was marked by devotion, resilience, generosity, and an unwavering love for family.

Lucy was born on July 16, 1937, in Snomac, Oklahoma, to Tom and Retha Edmonds. She was raised in the close-knit community of Seminole, where the values of hard work, kindness, faithfulness, and service to others became the foundation of the beautiful life she would go on to build.

She graduated from Seminole High School in 1955 and, during those years, met the love of her life, Glenn Cook, while dragging Main Street in Wewoka. Though she was a proud “green weenie,” it was Lucy’s spirited personality and adorable pink shorts that captured Glenn’s heart. The two were married on June 25, 1955, beginning a love story that would span nearly seventy-one remarkable years.

Together, Lucy and Glenn built not only a marriage, but a life filled with laughter, adventure, hard work, and unwavering devotion. From oilfield work to family ski trips, they embraced every season of life side by side. To those who knew them best, one of the sweetest memories will forever be the way Lucy lovingly said Glenn’s name.

Throughout her life, Lucy worked in many places, including Otasco in Seminole, Allred’s Restaurant in Stroud, the Wewoka Times, First National Bank, and Security State Bank. She was always looking for ways to serve her community and spent many years leading Camp Fire Girls while raising her daughters. Yet perhaps her most treasured role was serving alongside Glenn as co-owner and secretary of Glenco Pipe & Supply. She was truly his right-hand gal — steady, capable, and endlessly hardworking. Visitors to the store could often find her at her typewriter preparing invoices or standing near the furnace with a warm cup of coffee in hand.

Lucy possessed a remarkable gift for making things beautiful. She loved flowers deeply and poured her creativity into gardening, landscaping, floral arranging, and decorating. Over the years, she owned a landscaping business, greenhouse, Christmas tree lot, and flower shop. Her yard bloomed abundantly each spring and summer, overflowing with flowers and hanging baskets that reflected the care she gave to everything she touched. Some of her grandchildren’s fondest memories are of watching Mimi tend her flowers while they played nearby in the swimming pool.

One of Lucy’s most beloved traditions was gathering the family together each year after Thanksgiving to make cheese apples from a treasured recipe. She began donating them to the Seminole Nation Museum Bazaar, an act that became a tradition for decades. She loved preparing them alongside her cherished “cheese apple group.” For more than sixty years, Lucy helped make thousands of cheese apples, most often covering them in paprika — though everyone joked she somehow wore more paprika than the apples themselves.

Lucy loved to travel and treasured every road trip alongside Glenn as his devoted “passenger princess.” Their adventures carried them across the United States, and her grandchildren delighted in hearing the stories they brought home. Lucy even purchased a large van so the grandchildren could travel with them. Although she never skied herself, some of the family’s sweetest memories are of Mimi waiting at the lodge with lunch, hot chocolate, and snacks prepared for everyone returning from the slopes.

No holiday was ever small in Lucy’s world. She celebrated every occasion wholeheartedly, filling her home with warmth, beauty, and the comforting aromas of home-cooked meals. Her Thanksgiving noodles became legendary among the family, and her blueberry muffins were requested time and again by grandchildren who never seemed able to get enough.

Lucy was lovingly known as a firecracker — spirited, determined, and wonderfully strong-willed. Glenn affectionately called her a “tough old boot,” a title she carried with pride. She was never afraid of hard work, never too busy to help someone in need, and never unwilling to serve her community. Her generosity, humor, strength, and fierce love for those around her left a lasting mark on everyone who knew her.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Tom and Retha Edmonds, and her brother, Fred Edmonds.

Lucy is survived by her devoted husband, Glenn; her sister, Virginia Fox of Shawnee; her daughter, Glenda Luper, and husband Terry, of Wewoka; her son, Kelly Cook, and wife Karen, of Shawnee; and her daughter, Tammy Cook, of Shawnee. She also leaves behind her beloved grandchildren: William Luper of Wewoka, Tyler Kimrey of Jenks, Kelli Ann Rollins and husband Jeb of Shawnee, Lacee Rollins and husband Josh of Holdenville, Tara Thomas and husband Garrett of Sayre, and Kassidy Cook of Roswell, Georgia.

She is also survived by sixteen great-grandchildren — Audri, Eli, Millie, Edan, Jett, Josslynn, Reid, LilliAnn, Rush, Livi, Linleigh, Hank, Rowan, Knox, Ashton, and Annie Bea — who absolutely adored their “Mimi,” along with her faithful dog, Cookie.

There will be a graveside service at Rest Haven Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum in Seminole on Tuesday, May 12th at 10:00 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Seminole Nation Museum, P.O. Box 1532, Wewoka, OK 74884.

Though Lucy’s hands are now at rest, the beauty she planted in the lives of others will continue to bloom for generations to come.

Services are under the direction of Stout Phillips Funeral Home in Wewoka, OK.