Barbara Cooke

Mrs. Barbara Louise Cooke, age 54, of Cartersville died Sunday, June 8, 2008 at Cartersville Medical Center. Born in Jonesboro, Georgia on March 13, 1954, she was the daughter of the late Warren Higginbotham and Louise Herndon Higginbotham. She worked as a secretary for a repo company. She enjoyed crocheting, sewing and NASCAR racing. Preceding her in death are her parents and a daughter, Jennifer Davidson.

Survivors include her husband of 20 years, Lowell T. Cooke of Cartersville; her sons, Dale Dyer of Cartersville; Kevin McGinty of Thermopolis, Wyoming; her brothers, Robert Higginbotham of Griffin, Ga.; Michael Higginbotham of Conley, Ga.; and Carroll Higginbotham of Carrollton, Ga.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, June 12, 2008 in the chapel of Parnick Jennings Funeral Home and Cremation Services with the Reverend Joe Nix officiating. Interment will follow in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Serving as Pallbearers are Virgil Prather, Herschel Weaver, Kenny Ledford, Jerry Davis, Doug Hunt and Tim Hamilton. Pallbearers are asked to meet at the funeral home at 1:15 p.m.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday from 6 – 9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made to St. Judes Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105.

Please join Barbara's family in honoring her life by visiting www.jenningsfuneralhome.com to share memories and to post tributes.

Parnick Jennings Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 430 Cassville Road, Cartersville is in charge of the arrangements.