James F. Cooke, a retired Carr-Lowrey Glass Co. executive and volunteer, died Friday at his Cockeysville home as a result of injuries suffered in a fall. He was 89.

The son of James F. Cooke, a Wall Street stockbroker, and Kathleen Rita Mulligan, a homemaker, Janes Francis Cooke was born and raised in Flushing, N.Y.

After graduating in 1945 from Xavier High School, Mr. Cooke enlisted in the Navy, where he served as a signalman aboard a destroyer that returned former German prisoners of war from the United States to their homeland.

Discharged in 1946, he enrolled at Fordham University, from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1951.

Mr. Cooke worked in sales before joining Anchor Hocking’s Carr-Lowrey division in New York City in 1957.

The former Floral Park, N.Y., resident was transferred to Baltimore in 1972 when he was named vice president of sales and marketing for the company. He retired in 1990.

Mr. Cooke enjoyed volunteering and had been active with the St. Peter Adult Learning Center and Our Daily Bread.

“Helping other people was the takeaway message about his life,” said a son, James F. Cooke Jr. of Glen Mills, Pa.

Mr. Cooke enjoyed reading.

His wife of 31 years, the former Anne Catherine Fitzgerald, died in 1987.

He was a 45-year communicant of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, 101 Church Lane in Cockeysville, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Thursday.

Mr. Cooke is survived by another son, Patrick Cooke of Monkton; two daughters, Mary Kathleen Price of Northeast Baltimore and Suzanne F. Cooke of Hampden; a brother, Donald P. Cooke of Key West, Fla.; a sister, Marguerite Cooke of New Jersey; and 10 grandchildren. Another son, Christopher P. Cooke, died in 2010.

—?Frederick N. Rasmussen