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In Loving Memory Of
Leah Angela Cox
- Leah Angela Cox passed away in her home In San Bernardino,
California on Friday, May 16th, 2008 at the age of 50 years. She was
born on September 12, 1957 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
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- Leah was the daughter of the late John M. Cox, who passed away in
January 2002 and Dorothy Schafer Cox formerly of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.
Leah started Kindergarten in Golden, Colorado, 1st & 2nd grade in Ft.
Collins, Colorado, 3rd & 4th grade in Las Cruces, New Mexico, 5th
through 10th in Houston (Westbury), Texas. Leah was a member of the
First Baptist Church at Westbury and was baptized there at age 12. The
family moved back to Pauls Valley and she graduated at Pauls Valley High
School in 1976. She then went on to college at Oklahoma State
University and obtained her BS in Fashion and Merchandising in 1980.
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- Leah moved to California with her mother and father and finished her
teaching degree at California State University in San Bernardino and
began teaching there in 1986. She was a teacher of the Alternative
Education in San Bernardino County school system since 1990, and for the
last 3 years had been working in the Juvenile Court Schools, as a
teacher in Rancho Cucamonga.
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- Leah held many school offices at County as a Union representative in
San Bernardino. She belonged to Kappa Kappa Iota, national teachers
Sorority and held offices, especially as treasurer of the Epsilon
Chapter in Fontana, California and state offices in Na State,
California.
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- She is survived by her mother, Dorothy Schafer Cox of Fontana,
California, 3 brothers; John Michael Cox and his wife Renee’ of Daphne,
Alabama; Justin William Cox of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma; and Scott Alan
Cox of Pryor, Oklahoma. She was survived by a niece: Jessica Nicole Cox
and her fiancée’ Michael C. Stokes and their daughter a great-niece,
Jaylye Stokes all of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, also a niece, Brianna M.
Cox and two nephews, Quade A. Cox and Hunter A. Cox all from Pryor,
Oklahoma.
- She was preceded in death by her father, John M. Cox, Her
grandparents Mary and Leo Schafer, and Jack and Nell Cox.
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- A memorial service followed by visitation for family and friends
will be held Saturday afternoon, May 24, 2008, at 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM
in the Stufflebean Chapel of Remembrance at the Stufflebean-Coffey
Funeral Home. Interment will be a private service at a later time at the
Cox Family Cemetery near Pauls Valley.
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