Bio from Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home Website
Bernice Cox, daughter of the late Claude Strickland and Blanche Liley Strickland was born on September 25, 1934 in Hartsville, Missouri and died on February 24, 2013 at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 78.
Mrs. Cox was a resident of Dexter and a member of the Dexter Church of Christ, Southeast Health at Dexter Hospital Auxiliary, received the community service award for the State of Missouri in 2005, the first recipient of the Richland teacher of the year award where she taught in the district for twenty-three years, a volunteer for the area agency on aging, Elder's volunteering for Elder's community outreach and was the former president of the BPW.
On December 19, 1953 she was united in marriage to George Cox at Maryland Heights, Missouri. Mr. Cox survives of their home in Dexter.
Besides her husband she is survived by one son, Jeffrey Cox of Dexter; by two daughters, Sherry Alsup of Clarksville, Tennessee and Kimberly Lawrence of St. Louis, Missouri; by two sisters, Janie Curry of St. Louis, Missouri and Lucille Duckworth of Albany, Georgia and by seven grandchildren, Jeremy Cox, Jared Cox, Rory Cox, Kara Alsup, Matthew Alsup, Hannah Lawrence and Collin Lawrence.
Besides her parents she was preceded in death by one brother, Doyle Strickland and by one sister, Marie Bakker.
Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, February 25, 2013 from 5:00P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Funeral services will then be conducted on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Clyde Jacques officiating. Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.
Bernice Cox, daughter of the late Claude Strickland and Blanche Liley Strickland was born on September 25, 1934 in Hartsville, Missouri and died on February 24, 2013 at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 78.
Mrs. Cox was a resident of Dexter and a member of the Dexter Church of Christ, Southeast Health at Dexter Hospital Auxiliary, received the community service award for the State of Missouri in 2005, the first recipient of the Richland teacher of the year award where she taught in the district for twenty-three years, a volunteer for the area agency on aging, Elder's volunteering for Elder's community outreach and was the former president of the BPW.
On December 19, 1953 she was united in marriage to George Cox at Maryland Heights, Missouri. Mr. Cox survives of their home in Dexter.
Besides her husband she is survived by one son, Jeffrey Cox of Dexter; by two daughters, Sherry Alsup of Clarksville, Tennessee and Kimberly Lawrence of St. Louis, Missouri; by two sisters, Janie Curry of St. Louis, Missouri and Lucille Duckworth of Albany, Georgia and by seven grandchildren, Jeremy Cox, Jared Cox, Rory Cox, Kara Alsup, Matthew Alsup, Hannah Lawrence and Collin Lawrence.
Besides her parents she was preceded in death by one brother, Doyle Strickland and by one sister, Marie Bakker.
Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, February 25, 2013 from 5:00P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Funeral services will then be conducted on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Clyde Jacques officiating. Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.
Bio from Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home Website
Bernice Cox, daughter of the late Claude Strickland and Blanche Liley Strickland was born on September 25, 1934 in Hartsville, Missouri and died on February 24, 2013 at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 78.
Mrs. Cox was a resident of Dexter and a member of the Dexter Church of Christ, Southeast Health at Dexter Hospital Auxiliary, received the community service award for the State of Missouri in 2005, the first recipient of the Richland teacher of the year award where she taught in the district for twenty-three years, a volunteer for the area agency on aging, Elder's volunteering for Elder's community outreach and was the former president of the BPW.
On December 19, 1953 she was united in marriage to George Cox at Maryland Heights, Missouri. Mr. Cox survives of their home in Dexter.
Besides her husband she is survived by one son, Jeffrey Cox of Dexter; by two daughters, Sherry Alsup of Clarksville, Tennessee and Kimberly Lawrence of St. Louis, Missouri; by two sisters, Janie Curry of St. Louis, Missouri and Lucille Duckworth of Albany, Georgia and by seven grandchildren, Jeremy Cox, Jared Cox, Rory Cox, Kara Alsup, Matthew Alsup, Hannah Lawrence and Collin Lawrence.
Besides her parents she was preceded in death by one brother, Doyle Strickland and by one sister, Marie Bakker.
Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, February 25, 2013 from 5:00P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Funeral services will then be conducted on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Clyde Jacques officiating. Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.
Bernice Cox, daughter of the late Claude Strickland and Blanche Liley Strickland was born on September 25, 1934 in Hartsville, Missouri and died on February 24, 2013 at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau at the age of 78.
Mrs. Cox was a resident of Dexter and a member of the Dexter Church of Christ, Southeast Health at Dexter Hospital Auxiliary, received the community service award for the State of Missouri in 2005, the first recipient of the Richland teacher of the year award where she taught in the district for twenty-three years, a volunteer for the area agency on aging, Elder's volunteering for Elder's community outreach and was the former president of the BPW.
On December 19, 1953 she was united in marriage to George Cox at Maryland Heights, Missouri. Mr. Cox survives of their home in Dexter.
Besides her husband she is survived by one son, Jeffrey Cox of Dexter; by two daughters, Sherry Alsup of Clarksville, Tennessee and Kimberly Lawrence of St. Louis, Missouri; by two sisters, Janie Curry of St. Louis, Missouri and Lucille Duckworth of Albany, Georgia and by seven grandchildren, Jeremy Cox, Jared Cox, Rory Cox, Kara Alsup, Matthew Alsup, Hannah Lawrence and Collin Lawrence.
Besides her parents she was preceded in death by one brother, Doyle Strickland and by one sister, Marie Bakker.
Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, February 25, 2013 from 5:00P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Funeral services will then be conducted on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:00 A.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Clyde Jacques officiating. Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.
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