Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Lilly Simms Bigpond Cox
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   COX
   OKMULGEE - Lilly Simms Bigpond COX was born May 15, 1925, in Sapulpa.
   She died April 20, 1997, at Tulsa Columbia Regional Hospital. Funeral
   services were held April 23 at New Town United Methodist Church with
   Rev. Harry LONG, Rev. Jake WILDCAT, and Rev. Lawrence KAHPEO, Jr.,
   officiating.  Pallbearers were Mark WATASHE, Neigel BIGPOND, Jr., Joe
   WATASHE, Jerry WILSON, Alfred BERRYHILL, and Ted REED. Honorary
   pallbearers were Eli WALKER, Yahola SIMMS, Jr., Tony FERGUSON, Sammy
   CHUPCO, Bill DOWDY, Steven WALKER, and James WALKER. Interment was in
   the family cemetery south of Bristow.
   She attended Prairie Pickett Public School and Kellyville School and
   was graduated from Haskell Institute in 1944. She was married to
   former Muscogee Nation Principal Chief Claude COX during his five
   terms in that office.
   She was preceded in death by her parents, Rev. Maxey and Sawena Long
   SIMMS, both deceased. Also preceding her in death were a son, a
   brother, and four sisters. She was survived by her husband, Claude
   COX, her daughters, Lannie Pauline BIGPOND of Bristow; three sons,
   Gregory Eugene BIGPOND of Sapulpa, Niegel BIGPOND of Mounds, and
   Timothy BIGPOND of Preston; 11 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren;
   three sisters, Rosie SIMMS, Maxine WATASHE, and Madja SIMMS, all of
   Sapulpa; two step daughters, Billie STERNER and Kogie KEITH, both of
   Okmulgee; and many other relatives and friends.