Jim Paul Cook

Jim was born June 28th, 1951, to Paul Cook and Clifford Clark in Levelland, Texas. He graduated from high school in 1969. Soon after graduation, he moved to Seminole, Oklahoma, where he met his first wife, Carolyn Sue Robbins, and they had two sons, Jerry Ronald, who was born in Seminole, Oklahoma, and then James Randall (Randy) Cook, born on Fort Sill Army Hospital in Lawton, Oklahoma.

The family picked up after Jim’s service ended in the US Army in 1975 and moved to Arkansas, where Jim became the Top Salesman for Certified Labs. After spending 3 years there, Jim wanted a better yearround climate and was transferred to Victoria, Texas in 1978, where he would call home.

Jim caught the entrepreneurial spirit and started his own chemical companies; Lubritec, then Chemlube. He sold industrial chemicals throughout the oil fields and plants across South Texas. Jim divorced Carolyn Sue in 1982, just to meet the love of his life, Debbie Moore Cook. They married August 28th, 1986.

After retiring out of the chemical sales business, Jim and Debbie started a company in the oil and gas maintenance business called Jim’s Tractor Service. After many years of success with that, Jim’s true dream job was to be in gun sales. The couple went into business together with J&D Gunworks where they traveled all over going to gun shows and meeting so many incredible friends along the way.

Jim was an avid hunter and fisherman. If he wasn’t hunting, he was fishing, with his best lady at his side. They became world travelers, hunting and fishing everywhere they went from the Colorado mountains to New Zealand, Africa and Canada. They have all the trophies to show for it in their enormous game room with several world-record animals.

If you knew Jim, you loved him. Always had a compassion to bring the positive out of everything and everyone. He was a jokester and seemed to have a couple of new jokes of the day stored in his brain every day. There was never a single dull moment around him. He was an amazing storyteller as well. In his last several years, he found his Happy Place at the Brown Bag (TPS) where he made another entire family of friends there. It was not if Jim would be there, it was merely expected. He called it CHEERS.

There simply is not a replacement for him. He will be immensely missed. The world became a lot duller with his passing. He went into hernia surgery last week and was discharged after all his vitals were absolutely perfect. The CT scans came back great. He simply went home that evening and did his evening ritual and by early morning started gasping for air and passed away in his beloved wife’s arms. We are having a full autopsy done to get all our answers.

Jim is survived by his wife Debbie Cook, sons Jerry Ronald Cook, and James Randall Cook (Randy). Grandchildren Justin Ronald Cook, Jeremy Randall Cook, and Lorilai Rachelle Cook, and the ever loved, spoiled rotten Zoe.

There will be a Celebration of Life on Sunday, March 24th at 4:00 p.m., 352 Haynes Rd, Victoria, TX, where we invite all that wish to come celebrate this amazing one-of-a-kind man. Come tell your story of Jim Cook. To leave a comforting message, or to share a fond memory, please visit www.gracefuneralfuneralhome. net.