Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
COX, MRS. EVA TULLY
Died at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, 1975, at Baton Rouge General Hospital. She was 82, a native of Louisiana, a former resident of Baton Rouge and a resident of Wyatt.
Body at Welsh Funeral Home with visiting after 8 a.m. Thursday. Religious services at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Martin Nelson. Interment in Gansville Cemetery, Wyatt, at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
Survived by two daughters, Mrs. H. B. (Margaret) Witter, Baton Rouge, and Mrs. Prentis (Iva) Talbert, Deweyville, Tex.; two sons, James Walter Cox, New Orleans, and Thomas Wayne Cox, Wyatt; two sisters, Mrs. Velma Tatum, Henderson, Tex., and Mrs. Louise Stephens, Gladewater, Tex.; two brothers, Earl Tully, LaPorte, Tex., and Marston Tully, Beaumont, Tex.; and five grandchildren.
She was a member of Siloom [sic Siloam] Community Church, Jonesboro.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James Wilson Cox and two daughters, Lurline Cox Pfeifer and Nell Cox Bergeron.
Family requests donations to the Cancer Society.
Thursday, June 19, 1975