Thomas Carter Cox

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Thomas Carter Cox was born January 28, 1906 in Hickman County, Tennessee and passed away February 26, 1991 in the Sayre Memorial Hospital at the age of 85 years and 29 days.

Carter, the son of Thomas Arnold and Cora Moffett Cox, moved with his parents to Grimes in 1910.

On May 19, 1928 he married Thelma Leona Brewer in Arapaho, Oklahoma and they lived in Grimes until World War II.

They lived in Fort Riley, Kansas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Manhattan, Kansas where he was an ROTC Instructor at Kansas State University.

He later moved to Fort Carson, Colorado where he retired on July 1, 1962 before moving to Fountain, Colorado then to Chickasha, Oklahoma; Midwest City, Oklahoma; and to Sayre in 1990.

Carter was a veteran and had served in World War II, the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one son, three daughters, two brothers and two sisters.

He is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Ruth and Ira Isch of Edmond, Oklahoma; one son and daughter-in-law, Otis and Agnes Cox of Albuquerque; three sisters, Nellie Jurgenson of Sayre, Oklahoma; Viola Repass of West Plains, Missouri; Willie Bates of West Plains, Missouri; nine grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.

Funeral services were Friday, March 1, 1991 at 1:30 p.m. at the Sayre First Baptist Church with Ray Smart and Tom Cooksey officiating.

Interment was in the Dempsey Cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service.

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