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William Lewis “Bill” Cox

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William Lewis “Bill” Cox

Birth
Red Oak, Ellis County, Texas, USA
Death
12 May 1967 (aged 64)
Farmers Branch, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Burial
Farmers Branch, Dallas County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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OBITUARY
William L. Cox, Councilman, Dies at Age 64
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas - Funeral services for William L. Cox, 64, of 13115 Goodland, a newly elected Farmers Branch city councilman, will be held at 3 p.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church here. Burial will be in Farmers Branch Cemetery.
A Farmers Branch resident for 38 years, Mr. Cox died here Friday.
The former tax assessor-collector for the Farmers Branch School District, he had won a slot on the city council in April.
Mr. Cox, a Red Oak, Ellis County, Native, was employed with the Dallas police department and the county sheriff's office before joining the Dallas County tax office in 1950.
He became the Farmers Branch school tax assessor-collector in the mid-1950s, retiring in 1959.
Survivors: Wife; two sons, Robert L. Cox of Carrollton and M. F. Cox of Farmers Branch; two daughters, Mrs. Maureen Pollard of Farmers Branch and Mrs. Charline Shehane of Carrollton; a brother, C. M. Cox of Irving; six sisters, Mrs. Lois Cox of Carrollton, Mrs. Opal Cheshier and Mrs. Ruby Baer of Farmers Branch, Mrs. Ruth Owens and Mrs. Cleo West of Dallas a nd Mrs Pearl Nutting of Midlothian, and nine grandchildren.
OBITUARY
William L. Cox, Councilman, Dies at Age 64
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas - Funeral services for William L. Cox, 64, of 13115 Goodland, a newly elected Farmers Branch city councilman, will be held at 3 p.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church here. Burial will be in Farmers Branch Cemetery.
A Farmers Branch resident for 38 years, Mr. Cox died here Friday.
The former tax assessor-collector for the Farmers Branch School District, he had won a slot on the city council in April.
Mr. Cox, a Red Oak, Ellis County, Native, was employed with the Dallas police department and the county sheriff's office before joining the Dallas County tax office in 1950.
He became the Farmers Branch school tax assessor-collector in the mid-1950s, retiring in 1959.
Survivors: Wife; two sons, Robert L. Cox of Carrollton and M. F. Cox of Farmers Branch; two daughters, Mrs. Maureen Pollard of Farmers Branch and Mrs. Charline Shehane of Carrollton; a brother, C. M. Cox of Irving; six sisters, Mrs. Lois Cox of Carrollton, Mrs. Opal Cheshier and Mrs. Ruby Baer of Farmers Branch, Mrs. Ruth Owens and Mrs. Cleo West of Dallas a nd Mrs Pearl Nutting of Midlothian, and nine grandchildren.


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