Everard Francis Cox 1920–2015 – Whos Your Daddy? Wikigenealogy

Who's Your Daddy?
Wikigenealogy

Everard Francis Cox, 1920–2015 (aged 94 years)

Name

Everard Francis Cox

Name: Everard Francis /Cox/
Given names: Everard Francis
Surname: Cox

Sex Male

Date differences

Family with parents
father	Links Birth: 21 March 1881 — Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA Marriage: 23 April 1916 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 26 November 1953 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Elizabeth Leany Ila Ruth Cox Everard Francis Cox Carol Cox El Myrrh Leany Cox John Bevalere Cox Wilford Charles Cox 1881–1953 Birth: 21 March 1881 — Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA Death: 26 November 1953 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA
mother	Links Birth: 26 February 1890 37 19 — Harrisburg, Washington, Utah, USA Marriage: 23 April 1916 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 17 August 1983 — Logan, Cache County, Utah, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Wilford Charles Cox Ila Ruth Cox Everard Francis Cox Carol Cox El Myrrh Leany Cox John Bevalere Cox Elizabeth Leany 1890–1983 Birth: 26 February 1890 37 19 — Harrisburg, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 17 August 1983 — Logan, Cache County, Utah, USA
Marriage	Marriage — 23 April 1916 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA
1 year elder sister	Links Birth: 1 May 1917 36 27 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Marriage: 28 September 1938 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 5 August 2001 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Devere Richard Mcallister Ila Ruth Cox 1917–2001 Birth: 1 May 1917 36 27 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 5 August 2001 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA
4 years himself	Links Birth: 27 November 1920 39 30 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Marriage: 26 December 1942 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 6 September 2015 — Hampstead, Carroll, Maryland, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Lela Sullivan Everard Francis Cox 1920–2015 Birth: 27 November 1920 39 30 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 6 September 2015 — Hampstead, Carroll, Maryland, USA
2 years younger sister	Links Birth: 25 December 1922 41 32 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Marriage: 23 March 1946 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 2 October 2004 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Howard Elvin Watkins Carol Cox 1922–2004 Birth: 25 December 1922 41 32 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 2 October 2004 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA
22 months younger brother	Links Birth: 19 October 1924 43 34 — St George, Washington County, Utah, USA Marriage: 1949 — Cache County, Utah, USA Death: 13 June 1965 — Navajo Lake, Iron County, Utah, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Adele Ramsbottom Vallen Steven Cox El Myrrh Leany Cox 1924–1965 Birth: 19 October 1924 43 34 — St George, Washington County, Utah, USA Death: 13 June 1965 — Navajo Lake, Iron County, Utah, USA
2 years younger brother	Links Birth: 7 December 1926 45 36 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Marriage: 1948 — Washington, Utah, USA Death: 14 February 2014 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Beth Atkin John Bevalere Cox 1926–2014 Birth: 7 December 1926 45 36 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 14 February 2014 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA

Family with Lela Sullivan
himself	Links Birth: 27 November 1920 39 30 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Marriage: 26 December 1942 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 6 September 2015 — Hampstead, Carroll, Maryland, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Lela Sullivan Everard Francis Cox 1920–2015 Birth: 27 November 1920 39 30 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 6 September 2015 — Hampstead, Carroll, Maryland, USA
wife	Links Birth: 12 May 1921 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Marriage: 26 December 1942 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 14 December 2017 — Westminster, Carroll, Maryland, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Everard Francis Cox Lela Sullivan 1921–2017 Birth: 12 May 1921 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA Death: 14 December 2017 — Westminster, Carroll, Maryland, USA
Marriage	Marriage — 26 December 1942 — St George, Washington, Utah, USA

Events of close relatives
Birth	27 November 1920 39 30 St George, Washington, Utah, USA
Birth of a sister	Carol Cox 25 December 1922 St George, Washington, Utah, USA
Birth of a brother	El Myrrh Leany Cox 19 October 1924 St George, Washington County, Utah, USA
Birth of a brother	John Bevalere Cox 7 December 1926 St George, Washington, Utah, USA
Marriage	Lela Sullivan — View this family 26 December 1942 (aged 22 years) St George, Washington, Utah, USA
Death of a maternal grandfather	Hyrum Leany 1 May 1945 St George, Washington, Utah, USA
Death of a maternal grandmother	Mary Margaret Woodbury 28 June 1950 St George, Washington, Utah, USA
Death of a father	Wilford Charles Cox 26 November 1953 St George, Washington, Utah, USA
Death of a brother	El Myrrh Leany Cox 13 June 1965 Navajo Lake, Iron County, Utah, USA Note: 2 miles northeast of the lake.
Death of a mother	Elizabeth Leany 17 August 1983 Logan, Cache County, Utah, USA
Death of a sister	Ila Ruth Cox 5 August 2001 St George, Washington, Utah, USA
Death of a sister	Carol Cox 2 October 2004 St George, Washington, Utah, USA
Death of a brother	John Bevalere Cox 14 February 2014 St George, Washington, Utah, USA
Death	6 September 2015 (aged 94 years) Hampstead, Carroll, Maryland, USA
Last change	17 August 2019 – 13:25:22 Author of last change: 7mikefh

Show all notes
Note	In Memory of Everard Francis Cox Obituary for Everard Cox Everard Francis Cox, 94, of Hampstead, passed away on Monday, September 7, 2015. Born November 27, 1920 in St George, Utah, he was the eldest son of the late Wilford C. and Elizabeth L. Cox. He married Lela (Sullivan) Cox in December, 1942, and they remained happily married for 72 years. He served in the US Navy during World War II and became a Naval Aviator and trained as a dive bomber pilot. He flew the F4U Corsair and the Douglas Dauntless and recorded over 300 successful carrier based missions from the USS Saratoga, the USS Enterprise and the USS Tarawa. After the Battle of Rabaul, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism and extraordinary achievement when in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire, he engaged an enemy fighter plane and succeeded in blasting it out of the sky. He received numerous medals for meritorious service. His status as a hero led to his being recruited to fly the War Bond Tour. He graduated from Dixie State College, then earned his B.S. from University of Utah, and went on to medical school at University of Maryland, Class of 1955. He returned to the Navy for his post-doctoral internship at Jacksonville Naval Air Station in the Naval Reserve. Toward the end of his internship, his commanding officer recruited him for a top secret special military program in which he was one of six men who qualified. He later learned that the program was the NASA space program. Being a man of his word, he had already committed to return to University of MD for his surgical residency program so he fulfilled his previous obligation instead of joining NASA and the other pilots who became astronauts. After completing his residency, he served as a senior investigator and surgeon in the surgical branch of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He returned to University of Maryland on the surgical faculty and devoted himself to the care of his patients and the training of surgical residents. He was held in high esteem by his colleagues for his excellent teaching and surgical skills. He was a general surgeon who worked in the golden age of medicine when a general surgeon did most anything. In the mid-1960s, along with Dr. R. Adams Cowley, he built the team to start the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems at University of Maryland. It was the first center of its kind. Dr. Cox pioneered new methods in trauma surgery and was the first to implement multi-disciplinary care of trauma patients. He did extensive research and pioneered techniques in the management of blunt liver trauma, and was a strong national advocate for implementation of air bags in automobiles. He was also active in his church and was the first bishop of the Hampstead Ward in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He and his wife, Lela, were instrumental in building the chapel and Mormon community in Hampstead. He served on the High Council and as a Stake Patriarch for the Baltimore Maryland Stake. In addition to his wife Lela, Everard is survived by his children: Susan C. Ramos and husband J. Cruz Ramos of Coolidge, AZ, Charles E. Cox and wife Bonnie Jean Cox of Tampa, FL, Connie C. Cantor and husband Jeffrey P. Cantor of Rockville, CT, Elizabeth L. Hammond and husband Michael Hammond of Ellicott City, MD, and John Myrrh Cox and wife Carol S. Cox of Odessa, FL. He is also survived by 17 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. The family will receive friends on Friday, September 11, 2015 from 3:00 to 5:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at ELINE FUNERAL HOME, 934 S. Main Street, Hampstead, MD. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 4117 Lower Beckleysville Road, Hampstead, MD. This obituary is protected by copyright by Eline Funeral Home. Proudly Serving the Community of Hampstead in the state of Maryland, United States All rights reserved. This obituary is also archived at ObitsforLife.com Eline Funeral Home

Show all notes

Note

In Memory of
Everard Francis
Cox

Obituary for Everard Cox
Everard Francis Cox, 94, of Hampstead, passed away on Monday, September 7, 2015. Born November 27, 1920 in St George, Utah, he was the eldest son of the late Wilford C. and Elizabeth L. Cox. He married Lela (Sullivan) Cox in December, 1942, and they remained happily married for 72 years.
He served in the US Navy during World War II and became a Naval Aviator and trained as a dive bomber pilot. He flew the F4U Corsair and the Douglas Dauntless and recorded over 300 successful carrier based missions from the USS Saratoga, the USS Enterprise and the USS Tarawa. After the Battle of Rabaul, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism and extraordinary achievement when in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire, he engaged an enemy fighter plane and succeeded in blasting it out of the sky. He received numerous medals for meritorious service. His status as a hero led to his being recruited to fly the War Bond Tour.
He graduated from Dixie State College, then earned his B.S. from University of Utah, and went on to medical school at University of Maryland, Class of 1955. He returned to the Navy for his post-doctoral internship at Jacksonville Naval Air Station in the Naval Reserve. Toward the end of his internship, his commanding officer recruited him for a top secret special military program in which he was one of six men who qualified. He later learned that the program was the NASA space program. Being a man of his word, he had already committed to return to University of MD for his surgical residency program so he fulfilled his previous obligation instead of joining NASA and the other pilots who became astronauts. After completing his residency, he served as a senior investigator and surgeon in the surgical branch of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He returned to University of Maryland on the surgical faculty and devoted himself to the care of his patients and the training of surgical residents. He was held in high esteem by his colleagues for his excellent teaching and surgical skills.
He was a general surgeon who worked in the golden age of medicine when a general surgeon did most anything. In the mid-1960s, along with Dr. R. Adams Cowley, he built the team to start the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems at University of Maryland. It was the first center of its kind. Dr. Cox pioneered new methods in trauma surgery and was the first to implement multi-disciplinary care of trauma patients. He did extensive research and pioneered techniques in the management of blunt liver trauma, and was a strong national advocate for implementation of air bags in automobiles.
He was also active in his church and was the first bishop of the Hampstead Ward in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He and his wife, Lela, were instrumental in building the chapel and Mormon community in Hampstead. He served on the High Council and as a Stake Patriarch for the Baltimore Maryland Stake.
In addition to his wife Lela, Everard is survived by his children: Susan C. Ramos and husband J. Cruz Ramos of Coolidge, AZ, Charles E. Cox and wife Bonnie Jean Cox of Tampa, FL, Connie C. Cantor and husband Jeffrey P. Cantor of Rockville, CT, Elizabeth L. Hammond and husband Michael Hammond of Ellicott City, MD, and John Myrrh Cox and wife Carol S. Cox of Odessa, FL. He is also survived by 17 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.
The family will receive friends on Friday, September 11, 2015 from 3:00 to 5:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at ELINE FUNERAL HOME, 934 S. Main Street, Hampstead, MD. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 4117 Lower Beckleysville Road, Hampstead, MD.

This obituary is protected by copyright by Eline Funeral Home. Proudly Serving the Community of Hampstead in the state of Maryland, United States

Eline Funeral Home

Show all media
Media object	Everard Francis Cox 1920-2015.jpg