Wendy Scott Cook

Right out of high school, moved to Denver with my family for my father to be mission president for LDS Church. Worked as a clerk typist (100 wpm) for BLM for a year. Then to BYU fall of 1967; Was studying nursing; sang with a pop group, "The Sweetbriars and was chosen to compete in "Your All American College Show" in Hollywood in 1969 then went on Hollywood USO Tour with Smoggy Mountain Bluegrass Orchestra to the Orient summer 1969 to entertain casualties of Vietnam War; Married Tom Medford 1970. Didn't finish BYU nursing school. Had 9 kids in 12.5 years (6 boys, 3 girls); Lived in Salt Lake City and Provo, UT; Denver, Colorado; San Jose,California; Hershey, Pennsylvania, Monroe, Louisiana; Mesa, AZ City, and Buckeye, Arizona; Sandy, Utah, now live in Hurricane, UT.

In Louisiana I was musical director of the Children's Center for the Performing Arts for about 6 years (all my kids were in theater, music, and the arts... In 1989 I went back to nursing school and attended Northeast Louisiana University at age 40. Graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) in 1997. Have worked as a Rehab, Prison, Psychiatric, Occupational Health, Hospice, Long Term Care, Home
Health ,School/Pediatric/Special Ed, Drug and alcohol Detox, and Teen girls Residential Treatment RN over the past 24 yrs. Married and divorced my children's father twice. Recently married a wonderful man I met online in Apr 2021, Dennis Cook. I have 20 grandkids of my own and with Dennis's 7 we have 26. Retired, but still working part time. I have traveled to Mexico, Canada, Bahamas, Israel, Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Wake Island, Guatemala, Italy and Brazil. I hope to travel a lot more before this life is over! I am very happy and feel very blessed for all I have been given and enjoyed so far in this life :-) I currently sing in the Southern Utah Heritage Choir which I enjoy very much. We just (Spring 2024) sang with Lex de Azevedo (81 yr old, "Saturday's Warrior) for his Easter Oratorio, "Hosanna" in the St George Tabernacle. Incredible! I currently work as an RN for a company where I monitor 18 disabled individuals

I was chosen to be in Dr Ripplinger's concert choir my senior year at Skyline but then was guilted into dropping out to take Seminary (I guess I didn't have enough electives to take both). But the Lord compensated me with wonderful musical opportunities after I went to college and throughout the rest of my life, for which I am extremely grateful.