Kay Cox

KAY L. COX WAS BORN DECEMBER 18, 1935 IN DUBLIN, TEXAS TO JAMES BRUCE ALLEN AND JEWELL FAYE HURLEY ALLEN. KAY DIED IN KILLEEN DECEMBER 18, 2011 AT THE AGE OF 76. SHE MARRIED LYNN COX AUGUST 11, 1955 IN CANTON, MISSISSIPPI. SHE WAS A LIFE MEMBER OF TSTA, SHE WAS A PAST MEMBER OF DELTA KAPPA GAMMA, ROYAL ACADEMIA AT UMHB, FIRST FAMILIES OF TEXAS, DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, CHAIRPERSON OF THE INTERCESSARY PRAYER MINISTRY, SHE TAUGHT YOUNG PEOPLE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT AGE OF 14. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF COPPERAS COVE AND A CHARTER MEMBER OF SKYLINE BAPTIST CHURCH IN KILLEEN. SHE RETIRED AFTER TEACHING 28 YEARS AT COPPERAS COVE HIGH SCHOOL. SHE TAUGHT SUNDAY SCHOOL AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH FOR ABOUT 40 YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND LYNN COX OF COPPERAS COVE, TEXAS SONS JIMMY COX AND WIFE KAROL OF TROY, TEXAS BRUCE CALVIN COX AND WIFE YVONNE OF KILLEEN, TEXAS SISTER JACKIE CRAIG OF KYLE, TEXAS GRANDCHILDREN B. J. COX AND WIFE STEPHANIE, RACHEL COX, KAYLA COX, KAYCI COX AND RYLAN COX. GREAT GRANDCHILDREN ETHEN SCRUGGS, ATLEIGH HARDAWY, RYKER MORUA, RAIDER MORUA, LEXEE MAREZ AND BODE COX. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS JAMES BRUCE AND JEWELL FAYE HURLEY ALLEN. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD 10 AM THURSDAY DECEMBER 22 AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN COPPPERAS COVE WITH DR. MARK KEMP OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL FOLLOW AT THE SMITH CEMETERY IN KEMPNER. VISITATION WILL BE HELD 6 - 8 PM WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21 AT SHEPPARD FUNERAL HOME. PALLBEARERS WILL BE MIKE WILBURN, DAVID WRIGHT, JAY MANNING, B. J. COX, CHRIS CRAIG AND RANDY CORLEY HONORARY PALLBEARERS WILL BE NOEL SCHNITZ, WAYNE TURNER, BILLY YOUNG, RAIFROD WILLIAMS, BOB HUTCHERSON AND RYLAN COX.