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JESSIE VICTORIA COX
1918 - 2000
Former Chandler resident Jessie Victoria Acord Cox of Fredonia, Kansas, died Friday, October 6, at Fredonia Beverly Health and Rehab. She was 82.
Mrs. Cox was born February 6, 1918, in Clarksville, Arkansas, to Joseph Marion and Bertha Yates Acord.
She attended Center Point School northwest of Clarksville and lived in Arkansas until 1927, when she moved to Sparks. She attended Eastview School northwest of Sparks and graduated from Davenport High School in 1939.
She graduated from the Muskogee School of Cosmetology in 1951, and later attended Kansas State University.
On November 28, 1941, she married Lawrence J. Cox in Bristow.
In 1952, she moved to Kansas where she lived in Abilene, Beloit, Manhattan and Hutchison. She and her husband spent one year in Chicago, Illinois, and one year in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1989, they moved back to Chandler where she lived until 1996.
She was active in the Christian Church and taught Sunday school. She was a member of the Chandler Christian Church, the Indian Springs Chapter of DAR, the American Legion Auxiliary Post 64 and the Lincoln County Historical Society.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters and four brothers.
Survivors include her husband, Lawrence of the home; son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Cheryl Cox of Colby, Kansas; daughter and son-in-law, Karen and Mark Wing of Altoona, Kansas; eight grandchildren and three great-granddaughters; sister, Pearl Patterson of Chandler and many other relatives and friends.
Services will be 10:00 a.m. today at First Christian Church, Chandler, with the Rev. Fred B. Rider officiating.
Burial will be in Oak Park Cemetery, Chandler, under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Home, Chandler.
Memorials may be made to the First Christian Church of Chandler or the Sunflower Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.
Published October 10, 2000.
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