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Joan Maxwell Cook of Wenham, Massachusetts, and Quogue died after a short illness on February 15. She was 84.
Ms. Cook was the daughter of the late Harold Huntting Cook of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Alice Doyle Kelly of New York City. She graduated from Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey. She was working for New York Hospital for Special Surgery when her sister, Anne Cook Durey, died, leaving two young sons; Ms. Cook moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts, to raise her nephews.
Ms. Cook was very active in the community and in church and charitable organizations, including the Ipswich Garden Club and the Blue Hill Troupe. In Quogue, she belonged to the Quogue Field Club, where she successfully pursued the game of golf, and the Quogue Beach Club, where an ocean swim was one of her favorite joys. Another life interest was birding.
She is survived by her two nephews, Forbes Cleaveland Durey and Peter Huntting Durey, both of Massachusetts; and the two daughters of Peter Huntting Durey, Grace Huntting Durey and Evelyn Rose Durey.
There will be a memorial service at the Quogue Cemetery on Saturday, April 19, at 11 a.m.
on Apr 8, 2014