Charles E. Cox
Charles E. Cox of Landon Lane, Campbellsville, son of the late Otha Lee Cox and Toncie McDonald Cox was born October 28, 1925, in Taylor County, Kentucky. He died at 6:55 P.M., Monday, September 30, 2002, in Campbellsville. Age: 76.He had professed faith in Christ and attended the Campbellsville Christian Church.He was a veteran of World War II having served his country in the United States Army, attaining the rank of Technician Fifth Grade with the 410th Engineer Construction Battalion. He and George A. Cox founded Cox Weather-stripping (which became Mannsville Sash and Door) and Cox Cabinet Company. He later founded Cox Interior. He united in marriage to Helen Bohanon December 16, 1944.Besides his wife, Helen Cox of Landon Lane, Campbellsville, he is survived by three sons and one daughter: Barry Cox and his wife Lucy, Lanny Cox and his wife, Joyce, Kay Cox Legg and her husband, Larry all of Campbellsville and Steve Cox of Louisville; eight grandchildren: Jennifer Taylor, Benjie Cox, Aaron Cox, and Carol Simmons of Campbellsville, Grant Cox, Landon Cox and Lanai Cox of Louisville and Leigh Ann Simmons of Cincinnati, five great-grandchildren: Morgan Taylor and Cayela Taylor of Campbellsville, Austin Cox of Columbia and Ashton Cox and Cody Ogden of Louisville; three sisters and four brothers: Kenneth Cox of Campbellsville, William A. Cox, Carl Cox, Evelyn Meadows, Mary Waller, Sylvia Graybeal and Cozetta Allen of Louisville; several nieces and nephews and many other relatives and friends.He was also preceded in death by two brothers, Daniel Cox and Wallace Cox.FUNERAL SERVICES:2:00 P.M., Thursday, October 3rd, at the Parrott Ramsey Funeral Home in Campbellsville by Rev. L. Carmen King and Dr. Paul W. PattonBURIAL:Brookside Cemetery with full military honors by the Marion County Veterans Honor Guard
