David W.F. Cox
David W.F. Cox, 96, rural Wabash, died at 4:50 p.m., Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, at Miller’s Merry Manor East in Wabash. He was born Jan. 18, 1923, in Wabash County, Indiana to Arthur Glenn and Osie L. (Brane) Cox.
David was a 1941 graduate of Lincolnville High School and attended the Purdue University School of Agriculture. He married Edna L. Howell at the Lagro United Methodist Church on April 25, 1943; she died June 21, 2016. He was a lifelong farmer, a real estate broker, and owned and operated Cox Realty. David was a member of the Pasadena United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was a member and past master of the Hanna Masonic Lodge #61, and a member of the Fort Wayne Scottish Rite and Mizpah Shrine.
Funeral services will be 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 1, at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, with David Phillips officiating. Entombment will be in the Chapel of Remembrance Mausoleum at Memorial Lawns Cemetery. Friends may call 2-3 p.m. Sunday, at the funeral home.
Preferred memorial is Hanna Masonic Lodge #61.