Marguerite Snow Scovel Site staff
COTTAGE GROVE – Marguerite Snow Scovel, age 100, of Cottage Grove, passed away on Saturday, May 22, 2021.
On Jan. 7, 1921, a beautiful baby girl arrived on Planet Earth in the care of Lena and William Raymond Cook. Marguerite Snow Cook’s 100-year journey began in the upper northeast corner of South Dakota in the little town of Langford, where her Dad was the dentist and his brother, “Uncle Doctor” to Marguerite, was the physician for the 510 souls living there. She was preceded in birth by a brother she was not to meet, Marshall Emerson Cook, born in 1919, passed away in his sixth month, a victim of influenza. Her sister, Mary Louise, joined the family in 1924.