Lois Dorothy (Field) Cox (1930 - 2010)

Born 22 Apr 1930 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Leslie Record Cox Jr — married 3 Sep 1955 in Rutherford, NJ

Descendants

Died 26 Oct 2010 at age 80 in Wayne, Passaic, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Lois was a member of the Donald Gage singers

Lois was born in 1930. She was the daughter of Melvin VanBrunt Field (1902-1953) and Dorothy May (Neill) Field (1904-abt.1969)

In 1940, she was living with her parents, sister and maternal grandmother in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. ^[1]

She spent most of her life in New Jersey, living briefly in Emporium, Pennsylvania in about 1960. She married Leslie R Cox in 1955. They met when they were both singers in churches in the 1940s. They were members of the Donald Gage singers, She had 4 children ,Nancy Wilson, Leslie Cox III, Lelia (Cox) Muckelston and Laura Ritter, and was a devoted mother and grandmother of 8. Her main focus in life was her family and church. She was a trained soprano and singing was important throughout her whole life.She loved to sew, quilt, and crochet. She spent the last 30 years of her life in Pompton Plains, NJ and was an active member of the First Reformed Church there.

Her ashes are buried in the First Reformed Church of Pompton Plains Cemetery.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4PB-Y8R : 11 January 2021), D Field in household of Melvin V Field, Lyndhurst Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 2-221, sheet 13B, line 49, family 241, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2311.

• Nancy Wilson, personal recollection.
• Field, Lois D. 1994. “Cox/Field Family History,” November.
• Obituary https://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=lois-d-cox&pid=146302988
• Fact: Residence (1935) Lyndhurst Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States
• Fact: Residence (1940) Lyndhurst Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 26 June 2020, 16:26), entry for Lois Dorothy Field(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LT7B-HGC); contributed by various users.
• https://www.newspapers.com/image/255747011/?match=1&clipping_id=146987385
• Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
  Find A Grave: Memorial #187868187 (accessed 20 March 2023)
  Memorial page for Lois D. Cox (1930-2010), citing First Reformed Church Cemetery, Pompton Plains, Morris County, New Jersey, USA; Maintained by Kat (contributor 19409629).