Clyde O. Cook, 43, Gallatin Gateway, shot and killed his wife, Eileen Curtis Cook, 34, Friday afternoon on South Tracy near the Longfellow elementary school in what investigating officers termed a "murder-suicide."
The apparently crazed husband fired five shots from a .38 pistol into his estranged wife's body only minutes after the school had been dismissed and then killed himself with an Army automatic.
Eye witnesses said Cook emptied the smaller pistol at his wife, and then ran to his parked car and took out a .45 Colt, which he fired into his chest killing himself.
Cook was born March 11, 1913, in Belgrade, the son of John R. Cook and Maggie Sales Cook. He attended Belgrade grade school and high school. After farming for some time, he was a construction worker. He was a member of the Eagles lodge.
Cook married Agnes Eileen Curtis June 28, 1939 in Bozeman, when she was 17 and Cook was 26. The marriage license was issued with consent of her father, Thomas O. Campbell.
Cook had been living at his Gallatin Gateway ranch with the son, Kenneth.
Cook is survived by his four children, Virginia Rae, 15, Kenneth Clyde, 14, Caroline Joyce, 11 and Bonnie Mae, 9; his parents and a brother, George Cook, all of Route 1, Bozeman.
Services for Mr. Cook will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Sunset chapel with Dokken-Nelson Funeral home in charge of funeral arrangements. Interment will be in the Sunset Hills cemetery.
Printed in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle ~ November 18, 1956
The apparently crazed husband fired five shots from a .38 pistol into his estranged wife's body only minutes after the school had been dismissed and then killed himself with an Army automatic.
Eye witnesses said Cook emptied the smaller pistol at his wife, and then ran to his parked car and took out a .45 Colt, which he fired into his chest killing himself.
Cook was born March 11, 1913, in Belgrade, the son of John R. Cook and Maggie Sales Cook. He attended Belgrade grade school and high school. After farming for some time, he was a construction worker. He was a member of the Eagles lodge.
Cook married Agnes Eileen Curtis June 28, 1939 in Bozeman, when she was 17 and Cook was 26. The marriage license was issued with consent of her father, Thomas O. Campbell.
Cook had been living at his Gallatin Gateway ranch with the son, Kenneth.
Cook is survived by his four children, Virginia Rae, 15, Kenneth Clyde, 14, Caroline Joyce, 11 and Bonnie Mae, 9; his parents and a brother, George Cook, all of Route 1, Bozeman.
Services for Mr. Cook will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Sunset chapel with Dokken-Nelson Funeral home in charge of funeral arrangements. Interment will be in the Sunset Hills cemetery.
Printed in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle ~ November 18, 1956
Clyde O. Cook, 43, Gallatin Gateway, shot and killed his wife, Eileen Curtis Cook, 34, Friday afternoon on South Tracy near the Longfellow elementary school in what investigating officers termed a "murder-suicide."
The apparently crazed husband fired five shots from a .38 pistol into his estranged wife's body only minutes after the school had been dismissed and then killed himself with an Army automatic.
Eye witnesses said Cook emptied the smaller pistol at his wife, and then ran to his parked car and took out a .45 Colt, which he fired into his chest killing himself.
Cook was born March 11, 1913, in Belgrade, the son of John R. Cook and Maggie Sales Cook. He attended Belgrade grade school and high school. After farming for some time, he was a construction worker. He was a member of the Eagles lodge.
Cook married Agnes Eileen Curtis June 28, 1939 in Bozeman, when she was 17 and Cook was 26. The marriage license was issued with consent of her father, Thomas O. Campbell.
Cook had been living at his Gallatin Gateway ranch with the son, Kenneth.
Cook is survived by his four children, Virginia Rae, 15, Kenneth Clyde, 14, Caroline Joyce, 11 and Bonnie Mae, 9; his parents and a brother, George Cook, all of Route 1, Bozeman.
Services for Mr. Cook will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Sunset chapel with Dokken-Nelson Funeral home in charge of funeral arrangements. Interment will be in the Sunset Hills cemetery.
Printed in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle ~ November 18, 1956
The apparently crazed husband fired five shots from a .38 pistol into his estranged wife's body only minutes after the school had been dismissed and then killed himself with an Army automatic.
Eye witnesses said Cook emptied the smaller pistol at his wife, and then ran to his parked car and took out a .45 Colt, which he fired into his chest killing himself.
Cook was born March 11, 1913, in Belgrade, the son of John R. Cook and Maggie Sales Cook. He attended Belgrade grade school and high school. After farming for some time, he was a construction worker. He was a member of the Eagles lodge.
Cook married Agnes Eileen Curtis June 28, 1939 in Bozeman, when she was 17 and Cook was 26. The marriage license was issued with consent of her father, Thomas O. Campbell.
Cook had been living at his Gallatin Gateway ranch with the son, Kenneth.
Cook is survived by his four children, Virginia Rae, 15, Kenneth Clyde, 14, Caroline Joyce, 11 and Bonnie Mae, 9; his parents and a brother, George Cook, all of Route 1, Bozeman.
Services for Mr. Cook will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Sunset chapel with Dokken-Nelson Funeral home in charge of funeral arrangements. Interment will be in the Sunset Hills cemetery.
Printed in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle ~ November 18, 1956
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