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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 16, 1993                   TAG: 9301160037
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SAN ANTONIO                                LENGTH: Short

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VA. JOURNALIST JUNE COOK DIES FOLLOWING SURGERY

June Gumienny Cook, who was a journalist for several Virginia newspapers, has died of cardiac arrest after undergoing surgery. She was 48.

Cook died Wednesday in a San Antonio hospital.

She and her husband, John R. Cook, a senior vice president and chief communications officer at USAA, moved to San Antonio in 1989.

Cook, a native of Houston, had three sons. She also had been a reporter, editor, theatrical reviewer and columnist for Virginia's Reston Times, Westchester Daily Local News and the Salem Times-Register.

She wrote a column called "Nobody's Perfect" for the Salem Times-Register in the late 1970s, often writing about her family.

Survivors include her husband and sons, John T. Cook and Andrew J. Cook, both of Richmond; and Wesley A. Cook, a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Other survivors are her parents and a brother.

All names of family members were not available.

Services will be at 11 a.m. today in Mission Park Funeral Chapels North in San Antonio.

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