A Chappaqua woman is
remembering her late father this holiday season with a memorial bench in his
honor.
Jennifer Cook lost her
father, Greg Cook, in 2007 when he was struck and killed
by a driver in Chappaqua.
To honor her father,
Jennifer had a bench and plaque made.
Every holiday season
since, she has decorated it with little pieces of wood hanging
by a string. Those
pieces of wood are there for other members of the community to write the names
of someone they are thinking of during the
holidays.
Jennifer has continued
to decorate the bench to provide an outlet for people who are missing their
loved ones.
“People walk past
me at the bench and just thank me in tears for doing this, for giving them
an outlet to grieve a loved one,” said Jennifer.
If you’d like to
leave the name of a loved one who passed away, the bench is located at
North Greeley Avenue and King Street in Chappaqua.