OBIT: COX, Rev. Henry - 31 Dec 1999 - McCreary Co,KY
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:49:06 -0800 (PST)
Submitted by: Jason H. Jones - his grandson (jhj75@yahoo.com)

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Rev. Henry Cox
Retired Coal Miner

The Rev. Henry Cox, 76, of the Mountain View community, died 
Friday, Dec. 31, 1999, at St. Joseph Hospital, Lexington.

Funeral services were 1 pm Monday, Jan. 3, 2000, at the 
chapel of the Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home with the Revs. 
Johnny Wayne Inman, Rick Cox and Adam Cox officiating. Burial 
was in Mountain View Cemetery.

Born July 28, 1923, in Stearns, Ky., he was a son of the late
John and Vada Childers Cox. He was a retired coal miner, 
working for 30 years at Stearns Coal and Lumber Company; 
joined United Baptist Church at White Oak Junction in October 
1944 and later moved to help organize the Cherokee United Baptist
Church on Dec. 17, 1949. He was ordained a Baptist minister at 
Cherokee United Baptist Church on March 18, 1950, and pastored 
Mountain View United Baptist Church, Oak Grove United Baptist 
Church, Second United Baptist Church in Whitley City, White 
Oak Junction United Baptist Church and Cherokee United Baptist 
Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife, Fern New 
Cox, whom he married Dec. 31, 1943; a son, Roger Lee Cox; a 
daughter Brenda Lou Coffey; two brothers, Andy Cox and John 
Cox, Jr.; eight sisters, Martha Kidd, Mary Watson, Gracie, 
Stella, Della, Mara, Lara and Goldi Cox; and a grand-daughter, 
Kandi Denise West.

Surviviors include a son, the Rev. John Ricky Cox, Pioneer, 
TN.; five daughters, Alice Sue Bicknell, Lafayette, IN, 
Carolyn Ann Freeman, Delphi, IN, Joyce Dean Phillips, Muncie, 
IN, Linda Jean Inman, Stearns, and Billie Jo Woods, New 
Braunfels, TX; 14 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and a
brother, Donald Lee Cox, Dalton, GA.

Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.