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Lucy Helen (Evans) Cook After graduation, I attended Emily Griffith School for Medical Secretary training. Hired by St. Joseph’s Hospital as a lab receptionist in August 1964 and worked in that position for 5 years. Transferred to Outpatient Department in 1970 as an Outpatient Secretary. In 1973 transferred to the Blood Bank as Secretary/Clerk. Trained on the job as a laboratory assistant, doing data entry, spinning blood for technologist to prepare blood products into blood components. Trained to use the Cobe cell washer to prepare washed blood cells for special infusion to patients in need of that blood component. After working for St Joseph Hospital for 30 years, I was awarded a medical retirement in 1994. I was diagnosed in November of 1967 with Multiple Sclerosis and my condition had deteriorated the last 5 years of working. Married George E. Cook, Sr. in February of 1969. We met while working together at St. Joseph’s Hospital. He had 2 children when we married. George E. Cook, Jr. a chef in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tonya L.A. Cook an O.R. Assistant in Willingboro, New Jersey where she lives. We have 2 children together. Shane S. Cook a Registered Radiological Technologist and R.N. He is presently working in Los Angeles as a traveling R.N., but lives in Thornton, Colorado when home. Shaneal M. Cook works as an Accounts Payable Clerk in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania where she lives. We have 8 grandchildren and 2 step grandchildren. We traveled to a different city in the United States every year because George belonged to American Medical Technologists. Each year their convention was in a different state. We used the conventions for our family vacations. This has given us family vacations from Hawaii to Puerto Rico to Nassau. The past couple of years we have been taking our grand children to the conventions. George retired from Madigan Transfusion Services in December of 1999 and we returned to Denver, Colorado. However, because of the war George was asked to return to Fort Lewis. At the present time, George has taken a contract at Madigan Transfusion Services in Tacoma, Washington and is out of retirement. We plan to return to Denver again at the end of his contract.
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