Ruth C. Cox, Madison
The funeral for Ruth C. Cox of Madison will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Madison. The Rev. Mindy Johnson will conduct the service. Burial will be in Number Eight Cemetery, east of Madison.
The family suggests that, instead of flowers, memorial contributions be made to the Madison United Methodist Church and sent in care of the Wilson Funeral Home, P.O. Box 488, Madison, KS 66860.
Mrs. Cox died Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007, at Newman Regional Health. She was 90.
She was a homemaker. She and her husband lived on a farm northeast of Hamilton for 20 years, then lived in Missouri for a short time before they moved to Las Vegas, Nev., where they lived 20 years. They retired and moved to Madison in 1982.
The daughter of Roy and Blanche Barngrover Beevers, she was born Sept. 1, 1916, at Medicine Lodge. The family moved to Hamilton in 1921 where she grew up and graduated from Hamilton High School in 1935.
She married Parker Cox Jr., on Aug. 7, 1942, at Hamilton. He died July 4, 1997.
Mrs. Cox was a member of the Madison United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women. She also was a member of the Mother’s Council, Sunflower Club, 49ers and Hamer Group. She was a member of the Madison Days committee since it was formed. She helped deliver senior meals, did volunteer work at the local Bread Basket and was a Madison Pacesetters 4-H leader from 1955 to 1958.
She is survived by two daughters, Connie Sporing of Madison and Nancy Goldsmith of Glendale, Ariz.; five grandchildren; and one great-grandson. One son, Gil Cox; one brother, Buck Beevers; and one sister, Lenora Lloyd, died earlier.