WENDELL - Virginia Hunter Cooke, 95, died Friday, March 30, 2012. Funeral services were held Monday, April 2, at Baptist Tabernacle Church. Burial was in Corinth Baptist Church cemetery.

She was a native of Nash County and daughter to the late Jacob Henry and Bertha Alford Hunter.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John Dwight Cooke; son, Johnny Cooke; and siblings, Mannon, J. H., Al, Braxton, Ila, Ava, Ira Henry and Bertie.

Surviving: son, Billy Cooke (Charlene); three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren, all of Wendell.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are requested to the Baptist Tabernacle Church Building Fund, 1599 NC 231, Wendell.

Arrangements handled by Strickland Funeral Home, Wendell, www.stricklandfuneralhomes.net.