Dora Dean (Cox) Lacy (1929 - 2019)

Born 25 Jan 1929 in Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas

Ancestors

Wife of Oscar C Lacy — married 7 Oct 1988 in Gregg County, Texas

Biography

Services for Dora Dean Lacy Williams will be held at Radar Funeral Home in Longview on Wednesday April 3rd at 1:00pm. Dean went to be with the Lord on March 29th surrounded by love ones at Whispering Pines Nursing Home at the age of 90.

Dean was born in Texarkana on January 25, 1929 to Jeff and Dora Cox. She attended school at Atlanta, Texas. She was a pre-K and Kindergarten teacher at McNeal Private school, worked at Longview Hardware Store and at Allied Bank in Longview for a number of years. Dean enjoyed fishing, her flowers, going to senior dances, and watching birds on the back patio. Her greatest joy was spending time with family and friends.

Preceding her in death were her parents, four brothers and her husband Bob. Those left to cherish her memory are her three daughters: Joyce Vriezelaar and husband Terry, Vickie Simmons, and Peggy Jackson and husband Gary; five grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, three sisters and many nieces and nephews.

A time of visitation with the family will be Tuesday evening April 2nd from 5-7 PM at Rader's Funeral Home. Internment following services at Lakeview Memorial Gardens.

Please joins us in celebrating her life. An online guestbook may be signed at www.raderfh.com

(From Find-A-Grave)

Sources

"Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VH8G-ZLK : 1 March 2021), Jeff Alexander Cox in entry for Dora Deane Cox, 25 Jan 1929; citing Texarkana, Bowie, Texas, United States, certificate 1013, Texas Department of Health, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,240,782.

"Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V696-FTF : 1 January 2015), Jeff Alexander Cox in entry for Dora Deane Cox, 25 Jan 1929; from "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Texas Department of State Health Services.

"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:C311-DPZ : accessed 1 August 2021), Dora Dean Cox in household of Jeff A Cox, Precinct 2, Bowie, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 14, sheet 5B, line 67, family 103, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2300; FHL microfilm 2,342,034.

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWNR-9NQ : 10 January 2021), Doradean Cox in household of Jeff A Cox, Justice Precinct 6, Bowie, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 19-35, sheet 1A, line 12, family 3, 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 3990.

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