Obit of Cox Sr., Fred E. - Stephens County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 24 Jul 2005 Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Duncan Banner 27 Jan 2003 Cox Sr., Fred E. Fred E. Cox Sr., 94, a longtime Duncan area resident died Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003, in Meridian Nursing Center. Service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Bailes-Polk Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Joe Ligon officiating. Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery in Comanche. The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Mr. Cox was born Oct. 16, 1908, in Stephens County, the son of James and Willie Ann White Cox. He married Louise Huggins on Aug. 6, 1946, in Morton, Texas. Together they raised nine children. Mr. Cox worked as an oil field pumper and was a member of various square dance clubs. He enjoyed western swing music, round dancing and the fiddle. He played the French Harp (Harmonica), and traveled with Bob Wills and Ernest Tubb and was known throughout Oklahoma for his ability to blow a freight train whistle. Most of all he enjoyed spending time with his nine children. Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Fred Jr. and Louise Cox of Guymon and Charles and Teresa Cox of Tecumseh; four daughters and three sons-in-law, Barbara and Freddy Davis, Jeannie and Bo Bowden, Yvette and Randy Downey and Yvonne Shannon, all of Duncan; two brothers, James H. Cox of Midwest City and Grover F. Cox of Oroville, Calif.; two sisters, Beulah Stitt of Midwest City and Veta Petty of Duncan; 31 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; and numerous nephews, nieces and cousins. Bearers will be Dewey Cox, Thomas Cox Jr., Greg Cox, Duane McCarty, Charlie Danek and Roddy Jenkins. Honorary bearers are Christopher Cox, Fred Cox III, Charles Cox Jr., Brice W. Shephard, Vincent Hall and Brandon Downey. The family will meet at the home of Yvonne Shannon 150 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm