Zook, Enoch Jacob (1879-1962)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 15 Mar 1962 p. 8

Birth date: 1879 Feb 17

text of obituary:

BISHOP ENOCH J. ZOOK

Enoch J. Zook, son of Jacob and Sarah Kauffman Zook, was born Feb. 17, 1879 in Lawrence County, Pa. and died Jan. 11, 1962 in Jameson Memorial Hospital, New Castle, Pa., after an illness of one week following a heart attack, aged 82 years, 10 months and 25 days. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, Jan. 14.

On Jan. 14, 1902 he was married to Mary E. Spiker who survives him. The funeral was on the 60th anniversary date of their wedding. Also surviving are three daughters: Ethel, Mrs. M. L. Troyer of Elida, Ohio, Sara, Mrs. Merle W. Eshleman of Harrisonburg, Va., and Mary Emma, Mrs. Chester Shank of Scottdale, Pa.; two sons, Orren W. Zook of Youngstown, Ohio and E. Homer Zook of West Middlesex, Pa.; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One son preceded him in death.

He lived in Lawrence County all his life and worked as a section foreman on the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1904 until 1945 when he retired.

On May 23, 1920 he was ordained as minister at the Maple Grove Mennonite Church, New Wilmington, Pa., with John F. Mast in charge. On Nov. 5, 1922 he was ordained to the office of bishop in the same church with Eli Stoltzfus in charge. He served the Maple Grove Church until he retired in 1953. His other church activities included service as Sunday school superintendent, song leader, church treasurer, and membership on the Mission Board at Youngstown, Ohio while T. K. Hershep [sic Hershey] and John I. Byler served there.

The funeral services were in charge of Rev. Nathan Nussbaum, the present pastor of the Maple Grove Church. Dr. Merle Eshleman had Scripture reading and prayer and Bishop M. L. Troyer preached the sermon. Interment was in the Amish cemetery north of New Wilmington.

Bishop Zook will be remembered as a kind, loving husband and father in the home, a dependable, honest man in his work, a good neighbor in the community and a faithful leader in the church in which he was called to serve. The large number of people who called at the home and the unusually large attendance at the funeral indicated the high esteem in which he was held by the people of the home community and nearby areas.