CLARENCE R. COX

COX, JOHNSON, SMITH, KUBES

Posted By: Mary Burrows (email)
Date: 4/20/2012 at 08:16:23

The Norfolk Daily News
Friday, Oct. 28, 1960

C.R.Cox, 77, is Taken by Death; Funeral Monday

Clarence R. Cox, 77, 1010 S. Third St., retired North Western Railway conductor, died Thursday evening at his home.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at the Home for Funerals, where the body will lie in state from 4 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery.

The rosary will be recited at 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Home for Funerals.

Mr. Cox, , son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cox, was born July 30, 1883, at Missouri Valley, Iowa, and started his career with the North Western Railway as a telegraph lineman April 12, 1902, at Missouri Valley. He started serving as a brakeman out of Norfolk May 26, 1906, and was promoted to conductor Oct. 16, 1910. He retired
Nov. 1, 1948. After his retirement he was employed as custodian at Legion Home.

He served in the Army in World War I and was a member of the American Legion and Masonic Lodge.
He was married Oct. 1, 1901 at West Point to Miss Minnie Johnson who preceded him in death.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Elaine Smith, who lived with him, and one niece, Mrs. Francis Kubes, Meadow Grove.

The Norfolk Daily News
Monday October 31, 1960 p 13

CLARENCE R. COX

Funeral rites for Clarence R. Cox, 77, 1010 S. Third St., who died Thursday, were conducted Monday morning at the Home of Funerals by Rev. Richard Clurej, assistant pastor of Sacred Heart Church.

Burial was in Prospect Hill Cemetery with the American Legion conducting military rites.
Active pallbearers were J. W.McKenzie, Lloyd Bloomer, C.E. Degaillez, S.B. Hohnbaum, W.H. Ryan and A. J. Weatherholt. Honorary pallbearers were W. I. Walling, G.E. Hayward, J.A. Kuhn, L. J. Larson, W.D. Russell and B. J. Sorenberger.

Mr. Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cox, was born July 30, 1883, at Missouri Valley. He was employed by the North Western Railway from 1902 until Nov. 1, 1948, when he retired. He was a World War I veteran.

He was married Oct. 1, 1901 at West Point to Miss Minnie Johnson who preceded him in death.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Elaine Smith, Norfolk, and one niece, Mrs. Francis Kubes, Meadow Grove.