The Wellington Leader
March 6, 1986
Fred Cox, 62, of 1703 Haskell Street, died Tuesday, March 4, about noon.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at the Church of Christ. Haun Kite, minister, will officiate. Burial will be in North Fairview Cemetery with arrangements by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors.
Pallbearers will be Mark Williams, Bill Owens, J.R. Bowen, David Baumgardner, John Holton and Kent Clark. Honorary pallbearers will be Earl Clark, John Erin Forbis, Louis Allred, Drury Lacy, Dr. J.M. Orr, E.S. Hale, Jr., Frank Coleman, Cecil Shanks and John Coleman.
Mr. Cox was born October 25, 1923 in Mobile, Alabama, the son of Lilburn F. Cox and Louise Knight. He came to the Loco community with his family in 1926. He graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1941.
He was married to Louise Rummel on November 26, 1950. Their entire married life has been spent in Wellington.
Mr. Cox was engaged in farming and ranching operations in the Loco, Wellington and Quail areas. He worked to develop irrigation farming in the south part of the county, and he was active in promoting work that would lead to improvement of crops, especially cotton.
He was an officer in the Army Air Corps during World War II, as a pilot.
Mr. Cox served on the Board of Directors of Wellington State Bank, a trustee of the Wellington Independent School District and on the Farmers Co-op Gin for a number of years.
He was a member of the Church of Christ.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Louise Cox; one son, Tony Cox of Wellington and a daughter, Kathy Allen of North Platte, Nebraska; a sister, Louise Mabery of Wellington, and two grandsons, Natt and Mark, both of North Platte, Nebraska.
Angie Mitchell Martin
March 6, 1986
Fred Cox, 62, of 1703 Haskell Street, died Tuesday, March 4, about noon.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at the Church of Christ. Haun Kite, minister, will officiate. Burial will be in North Fairview Cemetery with arrangements by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors.
Pallbearers will be Mark Williams, Bill Owens, J.R. Bowen, David Baumgardner, John Holton and Kent Clark. Honorary pallbearers will be Earl Clark, John Erin Forbis, Louis Allred, Drury Lacy, Dr. J.M. Orr, E.S. Hale, Jr., Frank Coleman, Cecil Shanks and John Coleman.
Mr. Cox was born October 25, 1923 in Mobile, Alabama, the son of Lilburn F. Cox and Louise Knight. He came to the Loco community with his family in 1926. He graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1941.
He was married to Louise Rummel on November 26, 1950. Their entire married life has been spent in Wellington.
Mr. Cox was engaged in farming and ranching operations in the Loco, Wellington and Quail areas. He worked to develop irrigation farming in the south part of the county, and he was active in promoting work that would lead to improvement of crops, especially cotton.
He was an officer in the Army Air Corps during World War II, as a pilot.
Mr. Cox served on the Board of Directors of Wellington State Bank, a trustee of the Wellington Independent School District and on the Farmers Co-op Gin for a number of years.
He was a member of the Church of Christ.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Louise Cox; one son, Tony Cox of Wellington and a daughter, Kathy Allen of North Platte, Nebraska; a sister, Louise Mabery of Wellington, and two grandsons, Natt and Mark, both of North Platte, Nebraska.
Angie Mitchell Martin
The Wellington Leader
March 6, 1986
Fred Cox, 62, of 1703 Haskell Street, died Tuesday, March 4, about noon.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at the Church of Christ. Haun Kite, minister, will officiate. Burial will be in North Fairview Cemetery with arrangements by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors.
Pallbearers will be Mark Williams, Bill Owens, J.R. Bowen, David Baumgardner, John Holton and Kent Clark. Honorary pallbearers will be Earl Clark, John Erin Forbis, Louis Allred, Drury Lacy, Dr. J.M. Orr, E.S. Hale, Jr., Frank Coleman, Cecil Shanks and John Coleman.
Mr. Cox was born October 25, 1923 in Mobile, Alabama, the son of Lilburn F. Cox and Louise Knight. He came to the Loco community with his family in 1926. He graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1941.
He was married to Louise Rummel on November 26, 1950. Their entire married life has been spent in Wellington.
Mr. Cox was engaged in farming and ranching operations in the Loco, Wellington and Quail areas. He worked to develop irrigation farming in the south part of the county, and he was active in promoting work that would lead to improvement of crops, especially cotton.
He was an officer in the Army Air Corps during World War II, as a pilot.
Mr. Cox served on the Board of Directors of Wellington State Bank, a trustee of the Wellington Independent School District and on the Farmers Co-op Gin for a number of years.
He was a member of the Church of Christ.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Louise Cox; one son, Tony Cox of Wellington and a daughter, Kathy Allen of North Platte, Nebraska; a sister, Louise Mabery of Wellington, and two grandsons, Natt and Mark, both of North Platte, Nebraska.
Angie Mitchell Martin
March 6, 1986
Fred Cox, 62, of 1703 Haskell Street, died Tuesday, March 4, about noon.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at the Church of Christ. Haun Kite, minister, will officiate. Burial will be in North Fairview Cemetery with arrangements by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors.
Pallbearers will be Mark Williams, Bill Owens, J.R. Bowen, David Baumgardner, John Holton and Kent Clark. Honorary pallbearers will be Earl Clark, John Erin Forbis, Louis Allred, Drury Lacy, Dr. J.M. Orr, E.S. Hale, Jr., Frank Coleman, Cecil Shanks and John Coleman.
Mr. Cox was born October 25, 1923 in Mobile, Alabama, the son of Lilburn F. Cox and Louise Knight. He came to the Loco community with his family in 1926. He graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1941.
He was married to Louise Rummel on November 26, 1950. Their entire married life has been spent in Wellington.
Mr. Cox was engaged in farming and ranching operations in the Loco, Wellington and Quail areas. He worked to develop irrigation farming in the south part of the county, and he was active in promoting work that would lead to improvement of crops, especially cotton.
He was an officer in the Army Air Corps during World War II, as a pilot.
Mr. Cox served on the Board of Directors of Wellington State Bank, a trustee of the Wellington Independent School District and on the Farmers Co-op Gin for a number of years.
He was a member of the Church of Christ.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Louise Cox; one son, Tony Cox of Wellington and a daughter, Kathy Allen of North Platte, Nebraska; a sister, Louise Mabery of Wellington, and two grandsons, Natt and Mark, both of North Platte, Nebraska.
Angie Mitchell Martin
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
