Funeral for Venna Lee Cook, 87, Cache will be at 2:00 PM Wednesday at the First Baptist Church in Lawton with Rev. Royce Littrell officiating. Mrs. Cook died Saturday, October 15, 2011 in Lawton. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. She was born to Hill and Susie Wallace, on April 18, 1924 in her family residence on the Red River, and grew up in Temple, Oklahoma. In Junior High and High School, she was active in the Cotton County 4-H Club. As a senior in high school, she was a county and state 4-H winner. This began her lifelong involvement with the 4-H program, and the youths of Oklahoma that it serves. She graduated from Temple High School in May, 1941, from Cameron University with an Associates' Degree in 1943, and graduated from Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha in 1949. She earned her Master's Degree from the University of Oklahoma. She was employed as a teacher for the Oklahoma Public School System, for 43 years, retiring in 1986 from Eisenhower High School, where she taught for 37 years. She also served as Chairperson for the Eisenhower Sr. High Vocational Department. Venna Lee married Robert Preston Cook on June 26, 1955, and at the time of her death, had celebrated 56 years of marriage. They have two children: Stephen Preston Cook, of Cache; and Shelly Cook Houghton, of Dallas. She was an extraordinary Mother, and encouraged her children's accomplishments and goals. Governor Henry Bellmon appointed Mrs. Cook to serve for four years on the Oklahoma Commission for the Status of Women, to study and promote the lives of Oklahoma Women. She held the office of treasurer for the Oklahoma Vocational Association, Home Economics division, for four years. Organizations in which she was involved included: Kappa Kappa Iota, Rho conclave; Delta Kappa Gamma; Oklahoma Retired Educators Organization; The National Education Association, Oklahoma Vocational Education, H.E. Division; Beta Sigma Phi;; Extension Homemakers (FCE) Oklahoma State and Comanche County Council of the FCE; Community Group of the FCE; and Four Square Sunday School Class of the First Baptist Church, Lawton. Survivors include her husband, of the home, son, Stephen Preston Cook and his wife Sandy, Cache, daughter, Shelly Cook Houghton and her husband Peter, Dallas, Texas, grandson, Cole Preston Cook, Cache, granddaughter, Preston Jeanne Houghton, Dallas, Texas and two sisters, Bernardine McClenny, Duncan and Bettye Jo Phillips, Enid. She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Estellene Rodolph and a brother, Dillard Wallace.