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Obit Notices 
Thursday October 31, 2002 


 James Cox
WACO - James Cox, age 64, of Bruceville, Texas, died Monday, Oct. 28, 2002, at a Waco hospital. Services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 1, 2002, at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Chapel, 6101 Bosque Blvd., Waco, Texas, 76710, with the Rev. Stephen Ramsdell officiating. Burial will follow at Waco Memorial North.
Mr. Cox was born March 22, 1938, in Fort Stockton, Texas, to Albert Presley and Thelma Lee Cox and reared in Imperial, Texas. He graduated from Buena Vista High School and later from Sul Ross State College in 1967. He served in the U. S. Army from August 1963 to July 1965 in the 2nd Battalion, 54th Infantry, and was stationed in Bamberg, Germany. James was a teacher, football coach and athletic director. He worked in various schools, including Brownfield, Mansfield, Comfort, Rising Star and Bruceville-Eddy ISDs, where he was athletic director and retired in 1998. He loved to play golf.
Survivors include his wife, Doris Cox of Bruceville; daughters, Vickie Matus of West and Jamie and Jana Cox of Bruceville; and granddaughter, Lexi Matus.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.  

 
 Floyd A. ‘Pop’ Hale
ODESSA - Floyd Alexander "Pop" Hale, 80, of Odessa passed away Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002, at the State Veterans Home in Big Spring.
He was born June 15, 1922, in Cleburne, Texas. He moved to Odessa in 1946 from Hermleigh, Texas. He worked for the Odessa Fire Department from December of 1949 to August of 1982, and retired as a Captain. He was an integral part of many changes of the Odessa Fire Department over that span of time. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a M.P. at the Battle of Bastogne. He was a member of the VFW, American Legion and a charter member of Northside Baptist Church.
He loved his family and grandchildren and was a very loving husband, father and grandfather.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Bonnie Ruth Hale; and brothers, Claude and Denfer Hale.
He is survived by his son, Buddy Floyd Hale of Odessa; daughters, Margie Horn of Colleyville, Texas and Brenda Caskey of Odessa; brothers, Elvin Hale of Socorro, N.M., and Gilley Hale of Las Cruces, N.M.; 10 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, 2002, at the Northside Baptist Church with the Rev. Clydel Chapman officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
Family will meet with friends at Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday.
Pallbearers will be Alex Hale, Eric Field, Bryan Lauterbach, Klenton Caskey and Vance Caskey.
Services entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. 
 
 
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