Funeral services for Cora M. Carter Cox, pioneer resident of the Grimes community who died at 3:40 p.m. Thursday in the Sayre hospital, were held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Grimes school auditorium.

Mrs. Cox was born February 11, 1870 in Poca, West Virginia and was married December 25, 1891 to T. A. Cox in Sheridan, Indiana. The couple moved to Grimes in 1910 from Tennessee. She had made her home there since that time.

Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Zella Gamble of Reydon; Mrs. Viola Repass of Littlefiled, Texas; Mrs. Nellie Jurgensen of Sayre; Mrs. Willie Bales of Manhattan, Kansas; two sons, Mayo Cox of Grimes; and Carter Cox of Manhattan, Kansas; one brother, C. L. Carter of Marion, Indiana; two sisters, Mrs. L. C. Foster of Flora, Indiana; and Mrs. Lilly Elliott of Connersville, Indiana.

She was preceded in death by her husband and a daughter.

The Rev. J. B. McDonough, Oklahoma City officiated. Burial was in the Dempsey cemetery, Dempsey, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma with the Scroggins Funeral home in charge of arrangements.

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