John R. Cox

Independent Enterprise
Thursday, August 18, 1977

WEISER - Services for John R. Cox, 65, Weiser, who died Tuesday in an Ontario hospital were conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Weiser Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Interment was in Riverside Cemetery, Payette, under the direction of Northam Jones Chapel, Weiser.

He was born April 13, 1912, in Weiser, and attended school in the Crystal area and Payette. He married Necia Woodruff Caldwell, Sept. 19, 1937, in Weiser.

They resided near Weiser where they farmed melons and was an orchardist. He was a member of the Baptist Church and the Ontario Gun Club.

Surviving are his wife, Weiser; a daughter, Mrs. Glen (Joan) Clarke, Houston, Tex.; a son, James, Payette; five sisters, Jane Shamberger, Glenns Ferry, Mary Steigerwalt, Lillian Moggridge, Elizabeth Peutz and Christine Trail, all Payette; two brothers, Oscar and Chelsey, both Chelan, Wash., and seven grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Jesse and Walter, and by a grandson, Daniel Riley Clarke.

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