Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Cox, Edward S. February 20, 2011
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  Published in Lebanon Daily News on February 24, 2011 
  Edward S. Cox 
  
  EPHRATA Edward S. Cox passed through the gates of this life on Sunday, February 
  20, 2011, at home. He had recently celebrated his 85th birthday. He was born 
  February 9, 1926, on the family homestead in the woods of South Lebanon 
  Township. His parents were Harry Joseph Cox and Mary Yaklich Cox. He grew up in 
  large family of twelve children. He came of age during WWII. Enlisting in the 
  Armed Services at 17, he served in the Army Air Corps. He received his training 
  on a Base near Tonapah, Nev. as a nose gunner flying in the B24 Bomber 
  aircraft. He flew missions over the European Theater. Ed knew the woods of the 
  Furnace Hills area very well. He owned and operated a sawmill business in 
  Elizabeth Township for 40 years. He also grew and sold Christmas trees on land 
  that was part of his parents' original homestead. Later in life he developed 
  the artesian springs there into a wholesale water business, South Mountain 
  Spring Water Company. He was an avid woodsman, hunter and fly fisherman. He 
  built a classic log cabin there and developed a pond behind it for fishing and 
  wildlife habitat. He welcomed many hunters to the cabin for deer season over 
  the years, as well as many guests of all ages to fish and rowboat in the pond. 
  He also loved to watch horse racing and was a serious student of The Racing 
  Form. He met his longtime life companion, Catherine Woodard Kurtz (deceased), 
  when he was 35 years old. He stood as a stepfather to her children and a 
  grandfather to her grandchildren. He faithfully cared for her during final 
  years. Her children and grandchildren have many fond memories of their times up 
  at the cabin and pond, in the woods with 'Grandad'. Ed is survived by two 
  brothers, James and wife Shirley of Ephrata, and Paul and wife Josephine of 
  Akron. He will be missed be his stepchildren, Susan Kurtz Mecholsky and husband 
  Jack of Gainesville, Fla., James Woodard Kurtz M.D. of Wayne, and Claudia Kurtz 
  Kirk and husband Timothy of Paradise. He will be well remembered by his 
  grandchildren, John Mecholsky and wife Karen of Crofton, Md., Nicholas 
  Mecholsky and wife Shaela of College Park, Md., Kristopher Mecholsky and wife 
  Ellen of Baton Rouge, La. and Sarah Mecholsky of Baton Rouge, La., Sonia Grasse 
  and husband Steve of Philadelphia, Dawn Crompton and husband Dan of Wilmington, 
  Del., Barton Kirk of Pittsburgh, and Samuel Kirk of West New York, N.J. Many 
  are the friends who will also miss seeing him. Friends may call at Stradling 
  Funeral Home, 201 Church Ave., Ephrata, on Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 
  There will be a Mass of Christian Burial at Our Mother of Perpetual Help 
  Church, Ephrata, at 1 p.m., Friday. Special note, an additional visitation will 
  be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, at the funeral home. Private interment at the 
  wishes of the family. 'A giant tree of the forest has fallen.' Arrangements by 
  Stradling Funeral Homes, Inc., Akron/Ephrata. 
  Published in Lebanon Daily News on February 24, 2011 
  
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