Dean Leroy Cook was born May 19, 1924 to Virgil Lewis and Mabel Livermore Cook. He died Dec. 25. 1944 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France.
Pvt. Cook served in World War II with the U.S. Army 262nd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division and was MIA/KIA in the English Channel and was awarded the Purple Heart.
Source: ancestry.com
