Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Mary Cox

Mary Martha Hildebrand Cox, 81, passed away Saturday, May 8 at her home.

Mrs. Cox was born on September 1, 1922, in Nevada County to Tom and Alice Bolls Hildebrand.

She attended Redland School and graduated from Bluff City High School. She was a school teacher with Laneburg and Prescott School Systems having retired in 1982 with 23 years of service. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Prescott since 1948. She was a member and former registrar and regent of the Benjamin Culp DAR Chapter of Prescott and very active in her genealogy work.

She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers, Ivan, Arl, J.T., Dale and Jack Hildebrand and by one sister, Nadine Hillery.

Survivors include her husband of 61 years, Pershing Cox of Prescott; two sons, Danny Cox of Prescott and Michael Cox and wife Connie of Camden; two daughters, Ann Cox Wylie and husband Dale of Hope and Cathy Cox Straley and husband, Beau of McKinney, Texas; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Monday, May 10, at the Brazzel/Cornish Funeral Home Chapel in Prescott with Bro. Kevin Smead officiating. Pallbearers were Alan Wylie, Perry Cox, Terry Cox, Paul Cox, Early Wayne Haynie and Jerry Don Hildebrand. Burial followed in the Liberty Cemetery in the Redland community, under the direction of the Brazzel/Cornish Funeral Home of Prescott.