Kirsten Cook, daughter of and administrative assistant to former congressman James Kee (D-W. Va.), dies at 71

Kirsten Cook, 71, who served in the late 1980s and early 1990s as executive assistant to MCI’s vice president of government relations, died Feb. 5 at a hospice in Surprise, Ariz., of complications from a stroke.

The death was confirmed by her husband, John C. “Jack” Cook.

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Kirsten Kee was an Olney native and a 1959 graduate of the private St. Catherine’s School in Richmond. She attended Catholic University.

Her father, James Kee, and paternal grandparents, John Kee and Maude Elizabeth Kee, were West Virginia Democrats who served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Kirsten was her father’s administrative assistant during his years in the House from 1965 to 1973.

She later spent about a decade at the National Institutes of Health as an office administrator for a genetics research laboratory.

She moved to Colorado from Olney in 1993 and most recently was a resident of Surprise. In the Washington area, she had been a member of the Paul Hill Chorale and the Renaissance Revelers.

Besides her husband of 48 years, of Surprise, survivors include a sister.

— Adam Bernstein