Carlton Chester "Cookie" Gilchrist

1935 - 2012  (76 years)

• Name	Carlton Chester "Cookie" Gilchrist
  Born	25 May 1935	Brackenridge, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Famous	Athlete - football
  Interesting	sports, life story
  Med. Note	his death, in accordance with his wishes, his brain was examined by the Boston University-affiliated Sports Legacy Institute, and they reported in June that Gilchrist had indeed suffered from stage IV of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the most serious classification of the condition.
  Sports	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_Gilchrist
  Name	Cookie Gilchrist
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-25819
  Died	10 Jan 2012	, Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I25819	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

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  Carlton "Cookie" Gilchrist

  
  

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  Remembering Cookie Gilchrist KITCHENER - The year was 1955 and Lublin's Fruit Market stood near the corner of Fairview Avenue and King Street East in Kitchener. My mother, Betty, worked there part time, trying to help her husband, Walter, pay the $11,500 mortgage on our family's new home on Chelsea Road. A young man entered the store and said hello to Betty. She had seen him several times before and knew that he lived across the street in a boarding house. His name was Cookie and he was handsome with a perpetual smile, six feet, three inches tall and solidly built at 200-plus pounds. Betty soon learned that Cookie bought fruit each day at Lublin's because the lady who ran his boarding house was a bad cook and that left him hungry. He played football for the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen of the Ontario Rugby Football Union and wanted to find a better place to stay.....In 1963, Cookie joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He was accompanied by the singer Diana Ross on one arm and an actress on the other. He was honoured many years later when his name was mentioned in a Nov. 10, 2008 article titled Here Are The People That Obama Can Now Thank, written by Andy Dabilis, managing editor of the New Europe, a weekly news journal. It listed the names of many people who had contributed to the U.S. civil rights movement over the years....Today's younger generations do not know about Carlton Chester (Cookie) Gilchrist. I consider myself fortunate to have known him. I admire and respect him because he lived his life standing up for his beliefs '97 and doing so in a time when being coloured meant you were often denied basic rights that most of us take for granted. And I sometimes wonder what kind of football and financial rewards he could have achieved were he playing today....by Larry Scholtis The Waterloo Region Record 11 Mar 2012 ________________________ Remembering Cookie Gilchrist KITCHENER - The year was 1955 and Lublin's Fruit Market stood near the corner of Fairview Avenue and King Street East in Kitchener. My mother, Betty, worked there part time, trying to help her husband, Walter, pay the $11,500 mortgage on our family's new home on Chelsea Road. A young man entered the store and said hello to Betty. She had seen him several times before and knew that he lived across the street in a boarding house. His name was Cookie and he was handsome with a perpetual smile, six feet, three inches tall and solidly built at 200-plus pounds. Betty soon learned that Cookie bought fruit each day at Lublin's because the lady who ran his boarding house was a bad cook and that left him hungry. He played football for the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen of the Ontario Rugby Football Union and wanted to find a better place to stay. Betty came home that afternoon and asked Walter if they could take in a boarder to help cover their expenses. Two days later, Carlton Chester (Cookie) Gilchrist, a future star with the Buffalo Bills, arrived at our home. He agreed to pay $15 a week for room and board. I was eight then and my sister Linda was six. Cookie became something like our big brother. Fortunately for him, my mom was an excellent cook. Years later Cookie would joke that he probably ate $25 worth of food a week '97 and that was a lot in those days. I would sit in the kitchen with him, eating chocolate cake and talking about life, school and football. We had a shared passion for chocolate cake and my mother perfected them so they were just the way Cookie and I liked '97 two layers with jam in between and a thick layer of chocolate icing all over. Years later when Cookie surprised us with a visit, he went directly to the fridge and pulled out a chocolate cake my mom had baked just a few hours earlier. Cookie was born May 25, 1935, in Brackenridge, Penn. His mom, Rose, nicknamed him Cupcake as a child; his dad, Otto, called him Doughnut. They eventually decided on Cookie...... Remembering Cookie Gilchrist. (2011). TheRecord.com. Retrieved 9 May 2018, from https://www.therecord.com/living-story/2579709-remembering-cookie-gilchrist/#.WvIQw3HA91E.facebook

  
  

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  Born - 25 May 1935 - Brackenridge, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA Died - 10 Jan 2012 - , Pennsylvania, USA  = Link to Google Earth