/

ap41000mfoomommor

Community
Calendar

page 39

Maze'
Toy!

page 45

Meyer and Fannie Cook,
Jerry Cook's fraternal
grandparents in 1927.

The

Cook
Book

Documentary keepsake
traces the roots of the
Cook family tree.

navy duty in 1944. Jerry Cook is

off to

his father Oscar in the ont row.
The Cook family sees Oscar Cook
of
the little boy in the arms

SUZANNE CHESSLER

Special To The Jewish News

E

laine Cook Epstein is not one
to go back, but she was
intrigued by an invitation to
do just that.
It was cousin Jerry Cook's idea.
A bus would be chartered to hold as
many extended family members as were
interested, and they would drive by the
Detroit homes where they, their parents,
grandparents, aunts or uncles had lived.
The route would include commercial
streets, places where shopkeepers long
ago sold kosher meat for old-world
recipes and challah for Shabbat dinners.
Churches that once had been syna-
gogues attended by the family were
other sights to see. So were cemeteries
that held memories of loved ones who
had married, raised their children and
celebrated life in the neighborhoods on
view.
Epstein signed up for the excursion,
organized last October, and so did 44
others.
"I'm very grateful that I could see
where my grandparents and parents
worshipped and the field where I once
lost a report card from Winterhalter

The Cook Family today on the steps of St. Paul Church. (Identify by number 1. Jerry Cook, 2. Elaine Cook
Epstein, 3. Alan Schindler, 4. Jeannette Cook, 5. Jodie Friedman, 6 Beth Cook, 7. Josh Glowacki, 8. Marla
Schindler

2/0
199

Detroit Jewish News

31