The Family - - -
Ron - Husband and father - Owns and operates Cook Aerial Applicating. Applying agricultural chemicals to farm crops with a 600 horsepower AT301 Air Tractor ag airplane. When the spray season is over he sometimes helps a friend and neighbor with the corn harvest by operating the John Deere 9650STS combine. Pretty tough job, you know. Sitting in the combine cab operating the machine, drinking coffee and listening to blue grass music on satellite radio. Should have taken up farming! Ron also enjoys working on and flying old airplanes as well as working on and driving old Willys jeeps and tending to his old tractors. After the bank account balance altering crash in Aug of 2003, he is contemplating some career that will take somewhat less capital. Possibly retirement. More on that subject later.
Jennelle - Wife and mother - Works as a loan clerk at Pioneer Bank in Sgt. Bluff, and would really like to retire. Trouble is, she provides the health insurance through her employer. She really enjoys her home in the country where she can garden and raise her flowers. She has the place really looking nice with all her plants and flowers and trees. She also has a sizable garden in which she raises vegetables and weeds. The picture in the misc section will have to be replaced, as her flowers and such were not there when the picture was taken. However, the house should be painted first.
Christy - daughter - Currently living in Chicago, IL. She is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa ('97) with a degree in accounting and the University of Iowa ('04) with a degree in speech and hearing science, Boston University ('06) with a master's in the field of speech-language pathology. She has worked in Houston, Texas as an accountant with DeLoitte and Touche, with Stewart Title Insurance company, and also with Ralston at Cedar Rapids, IA. and now as a Speech Therapist in the Chicago area. She plays piano, guitar, and drums, but has sold her drum set (the neighbors are happy about that). She is also studying Tae Kwon Do and has earned a black belt. Now THAT is scary. Click on the link at the top of this page and see her break a board!
Clint - son - Graduated from Iowa State University in December 2000 with a BS degree in Botany, and the creative genius behind the "Ronald L. Cook Homepage" according to him. He worked diligently at a career of doing nothing for awhile and was quite successful until he was offered a job a Mosier's Greenhouses in Sioux City. He accepted the job and worked there until the fall of 2006 at which time he went to work for the Customs and Border Protection Service as an Ag Specialist in the Chicago area. He has moved to Bensonville, IL to an apartment that puts him very near his work at O'Hare.