Sally Ruth Coleman Cook

Mrs. Sally Ruth Coleman Cook, 85, passed away peacefully on Saturday, February 14, 2026, and is reunited with her loving husband, Raymond Preston Cook.

A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, February 19, at the Red House Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Cook was born in Alamance County on November 3, 1940, the daughter of the late Percy Leonard Coleman and Julia Elizabeth Apple Coleman. She was a faithful woman of God, blessed with the patience of Job. She was a creative, crafty person who enjoyed making doll clothes, among other crafts. She especially enjoyed gardening and sharing the harvest.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond Preston Cook, to whom she was married for 67 years, their daughter, Cheryl Blackard, her sister, Sylvia Harrison, and her brothers Leonard Coleman and Joe Coleman.

Surviving are her son Jeff, and his wife, Gail; grandchildren Joseph Blackard and his wife, Ashley, George Blackard and his wife, Gigi, Bonnie Cook and her husband, Brooks Foley, and Preston Cook; great grandchildren Brooklyn Foley, Brody Foley, Landon Blackard, Mackenzie Blackard, Holden Blackard, Willow Blackard, and Annily Blackard; and sisters Donna Little and Kate Brummer.

The family will greet friends following the graveside service.

Walker’s Funeral Home in Mebane is honored to serve the Cook family.

“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.’ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Proverbs 31:28-30