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Verna Cox | Visitation:
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
4:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Martin-Mattice Funeral Home
1010 Merrill St.
Ruthven, IA
Service:
Thursday, September 22, 2005
10:30 AM
United Methodist Church
Ruthven, IA
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Verna L. Cox
September 12, 1924 ~ September 20, 2005
SERVICES
United Methodist Church
Ruthven, Iowa
Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:30 A.M.
CLERGY
Rev. Jim Gochenouer
ORGANIST
Evelyn Wigdahl
VOCALIST
Rev. Luther Thoresen
CASKET BEARERS
Steve Clark Kevin Clark
Scott Fuoss Philip Fuoss
Nicholas Cox Joel Cox
INTERMENT
Crown Hill Cemetery
Ruthven, Iowa
Verna Lucille Cox, daughter of Orrie and Viola (DeGroff) Olson, was born September 12, 1924 near Lake Center, Iowa. She attended school in Lake Center, graduated in 1941 and then attended the American Institute of Business in Des Moines, Iowa. After graduation in 1943 she worked in Culver City, California and Ruthven, Iowa as a bank teller.
On November 19, 1944 Verna was united in marriage to Emmett Stanley Cox at the Methodist Church in Ruthven, Iowa. They lived for many years on a farm outside of Ayrshire, Iowa where she raised her family, helped manage the farm and drove mail routes in the community. Following retirement, she and her husband moved to Ruthven and Verna devoted herself to caring for her husband, her grandchildren and serving her community. Her family, faith and friends remained the foundation of her life.
Verna died Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at her home in Ruthven after a brief but valiant battle with cancer. She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Fern Woodward.
She is survived by her husband, Emmett of Ruthven, IA; her brother, Raymond Olson of Ruthven, IA; her sister, Ruth Ann Clark-Scott of Des Moines, IA; six children, Randolph Cox and his wife, Peggy of Prole, IA, Nancy Cox and her husband, Evan Lindsay of Atlanta, GA, Sherilyn Fuoss and her husband, Edwin of Whittemore, IA, Richard Cox and his wife, Patricia of Des Moines, IA, Robert Cox and his wife, Lynda of West Des Moines, IA, and Regan Cox and his wife, Rochelle of Burnsville, MN; twelve grandchildren, Scott and Philip Fuoss, Joel Cox, Mark and Julia Lindsay, Nicholas, Kristina and Alexis Cox, Kristin and Kelly Van De Kreeke, and Cassandra and Delaney Cox; and one great grandchild, Gavin Lindsay.
Arrangements by Martin-Mattice Funeral Home
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