Obituary of Viola Marie Cox

Services for Viola Marie Cox, 97, Overton, will be Thursday, January 7 at 11:00 am, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home chapel with Reverend Atwell Hankins officiating. Burial will be in the Overton City Cemetery. Mrs. Cox died Wednesday, December 30, 2015 in Henderson. She was born March 21, 1918 in Many, Louisiana to the late Guy and Mamie Walker Sibley. She moved to Overton in 1978 from Edgewood, Kansas and she was a homemaker. She had been a member of the Queen Price Garden Club and was as active member of the Baptist Church. Besides her parents, Viola was preceded in death by her husband Ercie Hamilton Cox, Jr. in 1982. Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Susan Cox, Overton; three daughters and sons-in-law, Betsy and Dave Waterbury, Vancouver, British Columbia, Ginny and Jack Steele, Loveland, Colorado, and Jane and Woody Thomas, Indian Rock Springs, Florida; eight grandchildren; many great grandchildren; many great great grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews: and other family members. Pallbearers will be Caven Cox, Mike Bell, Scott Florey, Brud Hankins, Steve Tucker, and Vernon Hughes. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 10:00 am until11:00 am, Thursday, January 7, prior to the service.