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Obituary- Cox, Rosella

Rosella B. Cox
Rosella Boyles Cox, 86, To¬peka, died Tuesday, December 12, 1995, at a Topeka nursing home.
Mrs. Cox was a civil servant with the Federal Civil Service for 22 years before she retired. She also worked five years as a recep¬tionist for Dr. Malmstrom.
She was born January 2, 1909, at Richland, the daughter of Walter Henry and Mary Marie Jacquot Myers. She was a lifelong Topeka area resident.
Mrs. Cox was a member of the Eaglettes, Eagles Lodge No. 58, the auxiliary to the American Le¬gion, and Berryton United Methodist Church.
She married Thomas B. Boyles in 1925. He died in 1939. She married Glenn R. Cox in 1952. He died in 1986. A grandson, James Daniel Pye, also preceded her in death.
Survivors include three sons, Thomas H. Boyles, in Utah, E. Dean Boyles, Topeka, and Leonard E. Boyles, Rossville; five daugh¬ters, Laura M. Cannedy and Evelyn J. Ross, both of Topeka, Nina Boyles Pye, in Louisiana, Anna Ross, and Barbara Gilbreath, both in Arizona; 25 grandchildren; 47 great-grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Services were at 11 a.m. Friday at the Penwell-Gable Funeral Chapel. Burial was in Mission Center Cemetery in Topeka. Relatives and friends met from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association, Kansas Affiliate, Inc. 3210 E. Dou¬glas, Wichita 67208-3309.