COX, Marie Margarite: Died 1984

COX, WORLEY, MEADE, THOMPSON, KEMMERLY, BECK, WEBER, SPENCER

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MARIE MARGARITE COX

Marie Margarite Cox, daughter of Milton J. (John) and Hannah Worley Meade, was born May 1, 1907, in Davis County, Iowa and died on Saturday, Feb. 4, 1984 at the Heritage Manor Care Center in Newton. She had attained the age of 76 years, 9 months and 3 days.

Mrs. Cox was reared in Davis County and received her education in the Davis County Rural Schools. On Aug. 14, 1927, at Sperry, Iowa, she was married to Albert H. Cox, who survives her. They came to Newton in 1944 and have made their home here since that time.

In addition to her husband, Albert, survivors include two daughters: Mrs. Ford (Florence) Thompson of Newton and Mrs. Richard (Norma Jean) Kemmerly of Benton, Kansas; three grandsons; Curtiss Thompson of Newton, David Kemmerly of Wichita Falls, Texas, and Clay Kemmerly of Albuquerque, New Mexico; two granddaughters: Mrs. John (Connie) Beck of Newton and Mrs. Alan (Nanette) Weber of Humboldt, Kansas; Weber of Humboldt, Kansas; and three great grandsons: Joel Beck, Troy Beck and Eric Thompson, all of Newton.

She was preceded in death by her parents; four brothers, Harry Meade, John Meade, Lawrence Meade and Lester Meade; and by two sisters, Cora Meade, who died in infancy, and Helen (Virgie) Spencer.

Mrs. Cox was a devoted and faithful member of the First United Methodist Church Unit of United Methodist Women, the D.D. Class of First Church Sunday, School, the Rebekah Lodge, the Royal Neighbors Lodge of which she was a 57 year member, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, an active worker in the Republican Party, a member of the Faculty Wives Club, a member of the Skiff Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, to which she devoted many hours of volunteer work, and she was a former and long-time member of the G.A.R. Auxiliary. Although she had no sons, Marie gave time and energy to the Cub Scout program as a Den Mother.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1984, at the First United Methodist Church.

Burial was in the cemetery in Milton.

Source: "Scrapbook 1981 - 1985", Pg. 180,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA