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Submitted: 5/27/21 • Approved: 5/29/21 • Last Updated: 6/1/21 • R422138-G0-S3
March 18, 1893-December 2, 1956
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Joseph Barton Cox, local roofing contractor and a resident of Borger for the past 10 years, died late Sunday in the North Plains Hospital as the result of a heart ailment.
He made his home at 618 Franklin and was 63 years old.
Survivors are his wife, Alma Hazel; four sons, Glen Roy, 515 Franklin, Borger; Douglas of Wichita, Kansas; Joseph Barton, Jr., 115 Froma, Borger; Floyd Harold, 206 Veta, Borger; one daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Haney, 622 Lee; one brother, Luther Cox, Oak;land, California; three sisters, Mrs. Nath Hobbs, Hastings, Okla.; Mrs. Frank Melton, Artesia, N.M.; Mrs. Alvin Hightower, Oakland, California and six grandchildren.
Final services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Church of the Nazarene with Rev. Amos R. Meador, pastor, officiating.
Interment will be made in the local cemetery under the direction of Simpsons Funeral Home.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Monday, December 3, 1956, p1, c8)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Joseph Barton Cox
Death Date: 2 Dec 1956
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 65971
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Joseph Barton Cox
Birth Date: 18 Mar 1893
Birth Place: New Mexico
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Age at Death: 63
Death Date: 2 Dec 1956
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 5/27/21
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Record #: 422138