Wilda Rose Hickok and Harvey Delmer Crook
HARVEY DELMER CROOK was born August 28, 1911 in Pistol River, Curry, Oregon,11459 and died February 24, 1998.11459 He is buried in Pistol River Cemetery, Curry County, Oregon.456
He married WILDA ROSE HICKOK on November 13, 1935 in Gold Beach, Curry, Oregon,8219 daughter of LEONA DARE DUNHAM and REUBEN JAMES HICKOK. She was born February 12, 1911 in Yakima County, Washington,757 and died November 7, 1990 in Coos County, Oregon.876 She is buried in Pistol River Cemetery, Curry County, Oregon.456
Obituaries
World, February 28, 199811459
Harvey Delmer Crook
PISTOL RIVER — Memorial services for Harvey Delmer Crook, 86, of Pistol River, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Pistol River Friendship Hall.
Interment will be held at the Pistol River Cemetery followed by a potluck dinner at the Hall.
Mr. Crook was bron Aug. 28, 1911, at Pistol River. He died February 24, 1998, of natural causes.
He was a lifelong rancher, the great-grandson of four pioneer families: Crook, Lockwood, Moore and Jordan, who beginning in 1852, traveled the Oregon Trail and came to Smith River. In 1858, his grandfather Asa Crook sailed from New Orleans, La., around South America and landed at Crescent City, Calif. He married Ellen Lockwood and they settled up the Pistol River where their son, William was born in 1867, and they moved to Crook Point at the ocean. William and Julia Jordan Moore married and in developing the ranch built their home on the Pistol River south bank where Harvey was born.
After school at Pistol River, Mr. Crook finished high school in Gold Beach where he met Wilda Hickok. They were married Nov. 13, 1935, and helped his folks with the ranch. He served as manager of the Curry County Fat Lamb & Wool Shows, as master of the Arch Rock Grange in Pistol River, as director and president of the Curry County Livestock Association and as member of the high school board.
Playing the accordion and drums, he organized a band and held dances at Pistol River, Gold Beach and elsewhere. He helped restart the Curry County Fair in 1946, after World War II and founded the Free Lamb Barbecue which he continued through 1989, by adding beef, cougar and bear meat to the menu. He was an avid predator control hunter with his tow hounds, Red and Bluech throughout Del Norte, Curry and Coos counties.
Mr. Crook is survived by his sons, Ron and Bill; daughter-in-law Jackie; grandchildren, David, James and Kathleen, all of Pistol River; sisters-in-law, Ruth Crook of Gold Beach and May Crook of Smith River, Calif. and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins of Coos, Curry and Del Norte counties.
He was preceded in death by a baby son, wife, Wilda Hickok Crook; brothers, Ches and Herb and sisters, Irma, Vida Walker, Byrdie Metzgus and Dolly Crockett.
In lieu of flowers his family asks that memorial contributions be made to the Friendship Hall Building Fund or to the Curry County Historical Society.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| January 16, 19201319 | East Zillah, Yakima, Washington |
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| April 17, 193011460 | Gold Beach, Curry, Oregon |
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