Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Friday, August 3, 1973

James W. Cox

JONESBORO -- Funeral services for James W. Cox, 83, of Jonesboro, were at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Southern Funeral Home here with the Rev. Atkinson officiating.

Burial was in the Ganesville [sic Gansville] Cemetery.

Mr. Cox died at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Jackson Parish Hospital after a short illness.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Eva Cox of Jonesboro; two sons, Thomas Wayne Cox of Jonesboro, and James Walter Cox of Carson City, Nev.; two daughters, Mrs. Iva Talbert of Deweyville, Tex., and Mrs. Margaret Witter of Baton Rouge; and five grandchildren.