{"id":376487,"date":"2026-07-17T05:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376487\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T05:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:11:33","slug":"forest-hill-council-member-dies-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/376487\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Hill council member dies suddenly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/forest_hill_city_hall.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                File photo<\/p>\n<p>A Forest Hill City Council member has died unexpectedly, the city\u2019s mayor said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with deep sadness that I have been made aware of the sudden and unexpected passing of Councilman Anthony Cook, Forest Hill City Council Place 2,\u201d Forest Hill Mayor Stephanie Boardingham said in a news release. \u201cDuring his time in office, Councilman Cook demonstrated a sincere commitment to the residents he was so honored to represent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boardingham said she spoke with Cook on Wednesday; he had been hospitalized several days prior. He was 53 years old. Boardingham could not confirm whether Cook died on Wednesday or early Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Cook was a longtime city employee in the Forest Hill Public Works department before his tenure on city council, Boardingham said. He was re-elected for his second term in May.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/312659437\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784265093_106_STAFF_Emily Holshouser.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Emily Holshouser\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/312659437\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Holshouser<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Emily Holshouser is a local news reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo A Forest Hill City Council member has died unexpectedly, the city\u2019s mayor said Thursday. \u201cIt is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-376487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}