Lenora May Belle Desadier Cook, 84, of Marble Falls died March 23, 2008, while a patient at Llano Memorial Hospital. She was born to Christopher Earl Desadier and Edna Thomason Desadier in Natchitoches, La., on June 11, 1924.
When she was 12, her family moved from Natchitoches to Almeda, Texas, for her father’s oil field job. They attended the Pierce Junction Church where she helped with Sunday school and where she learned about Moody Bible Institute from her pastor and his wife.
After graduating from San Jacinto High School, she worked a year before attending Moody in Chicago. After graduating from Moody, she returned home to Houston, where she met and married Emerson Everett Cook on Sept. 9, 1947.
When her husband accepted a job with Aramco, the Arabian American Oil Co., in 1958, she packed up their two children and moved them to Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia, to join him in the desert.
She was a faithful Christian, a teacher at the Sunday School in Abqaiq and sang in the church choir. For a while she was the “welcome lady” to new families in Abqaiq. Most of her time she was a stay-at-home mother and wife, but she did work a few secretarial jobs.
After 18 years, she once again followed her husband to different jobs in Libya, Africa, Venezuela, South America, Port Arthur and Marble Falls, where he finally retired. They enjoyed 4 1/2 years in their retirement home overlooking Marble Falls.
Survivors include daughter Sheila Cook Frasier; grandson Michael Sean Frasier; grandchildren Kaitlyn, Mackenzie, Kallie and Keegan; sister Susie Estelle Desadier Hunter; and brother Blueford Desadier.
She was preceded in death by her son Phillip Wayne Cook and her parents.
Her husband died Jan. 1, 2011, and at that time the family chose to submit both obituaries for publication.
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