Bertha E. (Travis) Cox (1947)
COX, ESCUE, HOLLEN, KELLER, NEWHOUSE, PENNEBAKER, PRESTON, SAWYER, TRAVIS
Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 4/27/2016 at 16:42:36
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 20, 1947
Page 8, Column 8FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN CALIFORNIA
Mrs. Bertha T. Cox Taught School Here As Young Woman
Mrs. Bertha Cox, former Madison county resident, who has recently resided in Blue Lake, Calif. died there June 18 after nearly a year’s illness, at the age of 72 years.
Mrs. Cox, the former Bertha E. Travis, was born Feb. 20, 1875 near Peru, a daughter of William M. and Mary E. Travis. While a young woman she taught in the schools of Madison county. On June 30, 1897, she was married to John A. Cox. They resided near Winterset, and later near Peru. They were the parents of three children, Grace, now Mrs. Walter Newhouse, of Lolita, Calif.; Lois, now Mrs. Ernest Escue of Springdale, Ark., and Walter Cox of Blue Lake, Calif. While living near Peru, she served as the Madisonian correspondent for many years.
In 1922 Mr. and Mrs. Cox moved from this county to Korbel, Calif., later buying a home in Blue Lake. Mr. Cox preceded her in death on Nov. 21, 1929.
In addition to her three children, she leaves nine grandchildren, five great grandchildren, and six sisters: Mrs. Adelaide Preston of Belvidiere, N. J., Mrs Nell Sprinkle of Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Elizabeth Pennebaker of Clearfield, Mrs. J. W. Keller of Des Moines and Mrs. N. E. Hollen and Mrs. James Sawyer of Winterset.
Mrs. Cox was always interested in community projects. Though approaching 70 years of age, she took home nursing and Red Cross training during World War II, and served as a Red Cross station hostess. Elected a delegate of her church district to the National Presbyterian convention in Atlantic City, N. J., in 1946, she made the trip across the continent at a difficult time, for railway travel. She became ill but was able to meet five other sisters at the home of Mrs. Preston, at Belvidere, N. J., for a reunion, but was unable to return to Winterset by automobile, with Mrs. Hollen and Mrs. Sawyer, as planned. She was hospitalized in Pennsylvania for several weeks, and later returned to her home in California, and has been ill there and in the hospital since that time.
Funeral services were held at Arcata, Calif., and she was buried in the Greenwood cemetery there.
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