George V. COX

COX, VREELAND, BELL, KRAUT, MONAHAN, REED, DARLING, ARNSDORF, COMPTON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/6/2008 at 13:41:54

Lewiston Morning Tribune (Idaho)
May 28, 1993

GEORGE V. COX, 80, RETIRED CARPENTER

George V. Cox, a retired carpenter of Lewiston, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. He was 80. The son of George Thomas and Maude Irene Bell Cox, he was born Jan. 19, 1913, at Clarion, Iowa. He grew up and attended schools in Iowa and Wisconsin, then worked on various farms in Wisconsin. He married Dorothy L. Vreeland Oct. 29, 1938, at Bruce, Wis. During World War II he worked at Hudson Bay, Canada, building an air field for the U.S. government. In 1943 the couple moved to Lewiston. He and his brother operated the Cox Bros. Foundry at the site that is now Cloke Home Improvement Center, and he later worked as a carpenter at the Kenaston Corporation in Lewiston. He retired from the Kenaston Corporation in 1975 after 30 years. He was a member of the Carpenters Union Local No. 398 at Lewiston. He enjoyed restoring antique furniture and old gas engines, woodworking, hunting, fishing and gardening.

He is survived by his wife at the family home in Lewiston; two daughters, Wilma D. Kraut of Lewiston and Kathleen Monahan of Seattle; three brothers, Eldon Cox of Lewiston, Myron Cox of Spanaway, Wash., and Kenneth Cox of Boulder, Colo.; four sisters, Lucille Reed of New Auburn, Wis., Norma Darling of Augusta, Wis., Vera Arnsdorf of Eau Claire, Wis., and Doris Compton of Chilton, Wis.; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A brother, Maynard Cox; two infant sons; an infant daughter; a granddaughter and a great-grandson died previously.

Visitation hours are from noon to 5 p.m. Monday at Mountain View Funeral Home in Lewiston. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens in Lewiston, with the Rev. William Crowley of St. James Catholic Church in Lewiston officiating. The family suggests memorials be given to the Salvation Army, 1835 G St., Lewiston, Idaho, 83501.