(veteran)

Services for Howell W. Cox, 68, who died Sunday, March 1, 1987, at Immanuel Hospital in Omaha following a stroke lat Friday, were held at St. Paul Methodist Church in Omaha on March 4. Interment was in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Howell Winfred Cox was born August 16, 1918, at Oxford, Nebraska, to Homer Waldo and O. Winifred Cox. He lived with his parents on a farm his mother homesteaded in Kit Carson County, Colorado until he was six years old. The family then moved to Ogallala where he graduated from high school.

He married Beverly Jean Hennings, June 8, 1941, at Stromsburg, Nebraska. They had two children, Kathryn Ann and Curtis Wayne.

A 1940 graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, he was a carpenter and taught school in Ogallala before enlisting in the United States Navy in 1943 to serve his country during World War II. Following the war, he and his family moved to Stromsburg were he was a cabinetmaker and homebuilder. In 1954, they moved to Omaha where he worked as a draftsman for the Alfred Bloom Co., and later for Manfred Millwork, before retiring in 1983.

Since his retirement he has raised and sold bedding plants through the Wee Shop just south of Fort Calhoun.

He was an active member of St. Paul United Methodist Church where he sang in the choir and men’s quartet and served on many of its committees. He also sang in the Ft. Calhoun Presbyterian Church choir after moving to Ft. Calhoun.

He was a charter member of Men’s Garden of Omaha. He was also a member of the Blair Horticulture Society and Missouri Valley Orchid Society.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Glen Wendell and Paul Winfield.

He is survived by his wife Beverly of Ft. Calhoun; one daughter and her husband, Kathryn Ann and Guenther Schwartz, Blair; one son and his wife Curtis Wayne and Vicki Cox, Oron Hill, Maryland; and two grandchildren, Ensign Elizabeth Shanti Schwartz, Annapolis, Maryland; and Christopher Paul Schwartz of Blair. His mother-in-law, Myrtle Hennings of Crowell Home in Blair, also survives him as do many relatives and friends.

Sievers-Sprick Funeral Home in Ft. Calhoun was in charge of arrangements.