Thomas Cook

Mr. Thomas Anderson Cook, age 90, of Mineral Bluff, passed away August 16, 2021, in Cartersville, Georgia.

He was born in McCaysville to the late Johnie Anderson and Pearl Miller Cook. He served his country proudly in the United States Navy. He was retired from the Tennessee Chemical Company as a Boilermaker and later retired as a Vocational Teacher from the Fannin County School System. He loved the outdoors and especially fishing. Tom was a Christian and was blessed with a servant’s heart. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Thelma Cook; siblings, Jean Hyde, Joan Lanken and Joe Kent “Jody” Cook; and one sister-in-law, Charlotte Cook.

Survivors include his children and their spouses, Andrea Guy, of Epworth, Vicki and Christopher Fontana, of Lilburn, Georgia, and Lisa and Thomas Kureczka, of Winston Salem, North Carolina; grandchildren, Brandon and wife, Brittany, of East Bend, North Carolina, Mirinda “Mindi” Guy, Molly Guy, Jack Fontana and Joshua Fontana; brothers and sisters-in-law, Doug “Glenn” and Carol Cook of Rutledge, Georgia, and Johnny Clay and Cheryl Cook, of Columbia, Tennessee; sisters and one brother-in-law, Mary Ann Niermann, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, and Sonja Greene and husband, Bob, of Powell, Tennessee; and a number of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were conducted Friday, August 20, 2021, at 11 a.m. from the Akins Funeral Home with Rev. Matthew McDaniel officiating. Music was provided by Vicki Fontana, Jack Fontana, Christopher Fontana and Brittany Buchanan. The following gentlemen were selected to serve as pallbearers: Brandon Buchanan, Christopher Fontana, Jack Fontana, Joshua Fontana, Doug Cook and Johnny Clay Cook.

Interment followed in the Crestlawn Cemetery in Copperhill. For those desiring, the family request that donations be made to the National Eczema Association online at https://nationaleczema.org.

Condolences may be sent to the family online at www.akinsfuneralhome.com.

Akins Funeral Home of Blue Ridge was in charge of the arrangements.