Ida Berthenia Cook-Crowder

**If Sending Flowers, Please have Flowers Delivered Thursday, April, 19 Ida Berthenia Cook-Crowder was born the daughter of Raymond and Annie Belle Hailey in Marshville, North Carolina on April 8, 1930. After graduating from high school she migrated to Cleveland, Ohio where she met and married James Sylvester Cook to whom she bore two daughters, Patricia and Paula. As the wife of an Army Master Sargent, Ida traveled many places including Germany, France, Korea and Japan as well as any number of American Army Bases. Being a lover of the art of sewing, Ida never passed up an opportunity to increase her knowledge. She finished Clark School of Dressmaking and later earned an associate degree in decorating from Cuyahoga Community College. Ida learned to skillfully make draperies from an excellent craftsman who was later forced to sell her business due to his failing health. Because of his recommendation to some of his better customers, Ida was able to become one of the BEST drapery makers in Cleveland operating under the trade name of "Ida's Draperies." Her clientele included households throughout Greater Cleveland and many surrounding suburbs such as Parma, Strongsville, Medina, Gates Mills and Twinsburg. After the death of her husband, Ida was able to pay off the mortgage on their home and educate their daughters. Twelve years later she met and married a widowed preacher, The Reverend Dr. Roland Hayes Crowder with whom she shared fifteen happy years. She is already tremendously missed at the Second Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, 12017 Emery Avenue S.W. where services are scheduled for Friday, April 20, 2012: 10:00 a.m. Wake, 11:00 a.m. Funeral.