{"id":55973,"date":"2026-04-15T21:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=55973"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:48:15","slug":"joseph-e-bunny-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/joseph-e-bunny-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph E. \u201cBunny\u201d Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph E. \u201cBunny\u201d Cook, age 96 of Brandenburg, passed away on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, at Baptist Health in Louisville.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He was born on December 24, 1929 to the late Charles E. and Elizabeth Bennett Cook. He was also preceded in death by his brother, Dan and a great-grandson.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>His wife: Marlene;<\/p>\n<p>Eight children: Belinda Cook, Neal Cook, Janette Armstrong, Colette Robertson, Robyn Horvath, Glenn Cook, Dylan Cook, and Kyle Cook; <\/p>\n<p>One sister: Ramona Wilkins;<\/p>\n<p>One brother: Charles Cook; <\/p>\n<p>Twenty grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, at St. John the Apostle Catholic Church. Burial, with military honors, will follow in St. George Cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be held at Hager Funeral Home in Brandenburg on Tuesday from 3 until 8 p.m., and at the church from 9 a.m. until the time of mass on Wednesday. A vigil service will be held at the funeral home on Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n<p>Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the WHAS Crusade for Children, or to St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hagerfuneralhome.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph E. \u201cBunny\u201d Cook, age 96 of Brandenburg, passed away on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, at Baptist Health in Louisville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":10662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-obituaries","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Funeral-Rose.jpg?fit=425%2C282&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-eyN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-04-26 20:32:01","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[69],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55974,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55973\/revisions\/55974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}