Thelma Leona Brewer Cox

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Thelma Leona Brewer Cox was born November 17, 1909 in Grimes, Oklahoma to Laura and George Warren Brewer and passed away January 4, 2000 in the Hensley Nursing Home, Sayre, Oklahoma at the age of 90 years, 1 month and 17 days.

Thelma married Thomas Carter Cox on May 19, 1928 in Arapaho, Oklahoma.

They lived in the Grimes community until World War II.

They lived in Ft. Riley, Kansas, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Manhattan, Kansas. They lived in Fort Carson, Colorado until his retirement, when they moved to Fountain, Colorado. They later moved to Chickasha and Midwest City, Oklahoma before moving to Sayre in 1990 to make their home.

She was a member of the Soldier Creek Baptist Church in Midwest City, Oklahoma.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one son, three daughters, six brothers and one sister.

Survivors are one daughter and son-in-law, Ruth and Ira Isch of Edmond, Oklahoma; one son and daughter-in-law, Otis Lee and Agnes Cox of Norman, Oklahoma; one sister, Edith Marie Hamilton of Sacramento, California; eight grandchildren; twelve great grandchildren; and one great great granddaughter, along with a host of other relatives and friends.

Services were at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 6, 2000 at the Rose Chapel officiated by Ray Smart.

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