Joan Folinsbee Cook passed away peacefully at her home in Kingston, NJ. on September 24. She was 97. Born in New Hope, Pa., she was the daughter of Ruth Baldwin Folinsbee and John Fulton Folinsbee, a well-known Pennsylvanian/American Impressionist painter . She went to Miss Holmquist’s School in Solebury, Pa. and attended Smith College for one year and, in 1938, married Peter G. Cook, an artist who studied with John Folinsbee. They were happily married until Peter Cook’s death in 1992.
Joan was very active in the Princeton community as a member of the Stony Brook Garden Club, an actor in the Community Players at McCarter Theater, a member of her Monday Group for book-reading, a member of an investment club and a writer of special interest articles for “Town Topics”. She was an avid Princeton University Mens Ice Hockey supporter and would annually have the entire freshman team to the house in Kingston during the 11 years that her husband coached that team. Many of those players stayed in touch with her for the rest of her life. She had a wide circle of friends across the country with concentrations around Princeton and Woolwich, Maine where she and her sister, Beth Wiggins, summered with their families for over 70 years.
She is survived by her children, Peter B. Cook of Chilmark, Ma., John F. Cook of Kingston, NJ., Dr. Stephen S. Cook of Belle Meade, NJ., Paula C. Sculley of Sewickley, Pa., 15 grandchildren and 17 great- grandchildren. A memorial service is planned for 1PM, Tuesday, November 15 at Trinity Episcopal Church at 33 Mercer Street in Princeton with a reception to follow at Springdale Golf Club.
Arrangements are under the direction of The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.
