Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cockes, Debra C., 1998 

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DEBRA C. COCKES 

  Tigard, Ore. - A service to celebrate the life of Debra "Debbie" C. Cockes 
will be held Tuesday, March 3, 1998, at 4 p.m. at the Rolling Hills Community 
Church, 3550 SW Borland Road in Tualatin, Ore.  After an unexpected 
disappearance, Debbie, age 43, was found dead on Thursday, Feb. 26.  She was 
a Tigard resident for the past several years.

  Debbie was born to E. Dixon and Shirley Seward Cockes on Jan. 24, 1955, at 
Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Fla.  She graduated from Ben Eielson 
High School at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, in 1973.  Following many years 
dedicated to raising her three children, Debbie earned B.A. degree in human 
studies in June 1997 from Marylhurst College in Marylhurst, Ore.

  In September 1997, she was hired as an instructional assistant at Fowler 
Middle School in Tigard, where she had been an active volunteer for many 
years.  Debbie also volunteered at Tigard Public Library and recently became 
employed part-time at the library.

  She was an avid reader and met regularly with fellow members of a local book 
discussion group.  She loved gardening and cultivating flowers and was a 
founding member of the Bull Mountain Garden Club.  She enjoyed music and 
sewing and was a member of the Rolling Hills Singles Club at the Rolling Hills 
Community Center.

  Debbie will greatly missed by her three children, Benjamin Kyle Maclariello, 
Thomas Michael Maclariello and Catherine Elise Maclariello, all of Tigard; her 
parents, E. Dixon and Shirley S. Cockes of Livingston, Texas; her three 
sisters, Vicki Cockes Thompson of Yorktown, Lisa Cockes Judkins of Surry and 
Suzanne Leigh Cockes of Anchorage, Alaska; her aunt Bertha Seward of Colonial 
Heights; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins as well as many, many 
friends.

  Private interment will be in Cresent Grove Cemetery, Tigard, Ore.  The 
family request that those wishing to honor Debbie’s memory make a donation to 
the Douggy Center at P.O. Box 86852, Portland, Ore. 97286; or to a favorite 
charity benefiting children.


"Debbie" Debra Carolyn COCKES, of Tigard, OR, instructional assistant, 
b. 24 Jan 1955, Tyndall AFB, FL, found dead 26 Feb 1998, 
interred in Crescent Grove Cemetery, Tigard, OR, 
donated obit, publication unknown* 

Additional information: 

*An obit appeared in the "Daily Press," Mar. 3, 1998. 

Her father's obit ("Sussex-Surry Dispatch," Oct. 20, 1998) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/c220d1ob.txt 

Her mother's (donated, 2019) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/c220s1ob.txt 

Professional wrestler "Rowdy Roddy" PIPER is also buried in Crescent Grove. 


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