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Roger Cook Dies: ‘This Old House’ Longtime Landscape Expert Was 70


Roger Cook, known to viewers of PBS' series This Old House as the landscaper with an solution to every problem, died August 21. He was 70.

Roger Cook, known to viewers of PBS’ long-running series This Old House as the landscaper with a solution to every problem and an answer to every question, died August 21 following a lengthy illness. “Roger was our much-loved colleague, treasured by the entire This Old House community for his soft-spoken but no-nonsense approach to every aspect of landscape contracting,” the show’s website tribute reads. Cook, who lost wife Kathleen to cancer in 2010, is survived by son Jason, daughter Molly, brother Greg, daughter-in-law Anna, and three grandsons — Peter, Noah, and James.

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