Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cox, Charles Elsworth September 28, 1944
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Lake Odessa Wave-Times September 28, 1944

CHARLES COX DIES AT NOON THURSDAY
Charles Cox a long time resident of Lake Odessa and who has been in poor health 
for several years passed away suddenly at noon today at his home here.

No arrangements have been made for the funeral.

Lake Odessa Wave-Times Thursday October 5, 1944
FUNERAL OF CHAS. COX HELD AT HIS HOME

Funeral services were held Monday at 2 o'clock at the home in Lake Odessa for 

Charles E.Cox, 82, retired Michigan reformatory guard and former Odessa township 
farmer who died Thursday following a brief illness.

The Rev. E.A. Shulls was in charge of the service, with burial in Lakeside 
cemetery.

Born in Ohio, Mr Cox had resided inIonia county since a  small boy spending his 
earlier years on an Odessa township farm. In 1922 he moved to Ionia when he 
accepted employment at the reformatory upon his retirement eight years ago he 
returned to lake Odessa.

Surviving are the widow, Mrs Mary Haskins Cox, to whom he was wed 61 years ago; 
two sons, Martin, of Battle Creek, and Francis Technician attached to an 
ambulance corps in England; two daughters, Mrs Mabel Mason, Ionia and Mrs Maude 
Buxton, Lake Odessa; two brothers, William, Lake Odessa  and Frank, Kirland, 
Wash, three sisters, Mrs Maggie Runyan, Lake Odessa, Mrs.Maude Brock and 
Mrs.Doris Spoon, Rockford, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.


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