Charles H. Cook Memorial Church Women's T-Shirt

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Charles H. Cook was my great great grandfather and went to Arizona in 1870 to minister to the Pima tribe. This is the church that was erected to memorialize his work. After his wife died, all the children were sent to Iowa to be raised. He spent the last few years of his life with his oldest daughter in Nodaway, IA and he is buried there. Efforts are underway to raise funds and restore the church. His work continues today via the Cook Native American Ministries Foundation in Tempe AZ.

I grew up on an Iowa farm and moved to the city to pursue an IT career, only then it was called Data Processing. I can still remember taking a third grade class picture with my dad’s box camera; it took 120 film. Digital photography has allowed me to take advantage of my career and the passion for capturing a moment. While it takes great talent to paint or sketch a picture, I have always been a fan of photography. Photography has allowed me to see my great great grandfather, my dad in uniform with his unit in WWII, etc. Photography has also taken me to all the continents of the world, to the highest and lowest places on Earth and even below the seas. What a shame there isn’t a photo of the Parthenon after its completion. A...