Zook, Floyd Irvin (1923-2003)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2003 May 12 p. 8

Birth date: 1923 Nov. 23

text of obituary:

FLOYD IRVIN ZOOK

Floyd Irvin Zook, 79, of Strasburg, Pa., died April 13, 2003, in Essa Flory Hospice Center after a stroke one week earlier. He was born Nov. 23, 1923, to Uriel S. and Kathryn Durr Zook in Allensville.

He married Elizabeth "Betty" Brubaker on June 25, 1950.

A graduate of Eastern Mennonite School, he also received his master's degree from Pennsylvania State University. A science teacher, he taught at Western Mennonite School in Salem, Ore.; Belleville (Pa.) Mennonite School; Anne Arundel Senior High School in Maryland; Lewistown (Pa.) Senior High School and Lancaster (Pa.) Mennonite High School. He then worked for the Pennsylvania Dairy Herd Improvement Association.

He was a member of Mount Pleasant Mennonite Church, where he served as a Sunday school teacher, Sunday school superintendent, stewardship secretary, coordinator for the cassette program, as well as other church-related activities. He was a member of the Mifflin County Mennonite Historical Society and Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society.

Survivors include his wife, Betty; five children, Lois Ann Mast and her husband, Lemar, of Morgantown; Duane and his wife, Genie, of Plano, Texas; Ronald and his wife, Judy, of New Holland; Larry and his wife, Dawn, of Manheim; and Robert and his wife, Ethel, of Lancaster; two brothers: Lester and Merle; and 11 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by seven brothers and two sisters.

The funeral was held at Paradise Mennonite Church.