Florence Elizabeth Tilley and Keith Edmund Coxe
KEITH EDMUND COXE, son of HATTIE JANE COLTON and CLARENCE HERBERT COXE, was born June 11, 1916 in Davison County, South Dakota,6979 and died February 15, 1985 in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona.6980
He married FLORENCE ELIZABETH TILLEY on October 27, 1946 in Webster, Day, South Dakota.501 She was born July 17, 1917 in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina,168 and died February 3, 1998.456
Education
- Keith Edmund Coxe graduated from South Dakota State University, Brookings, Brookings, South Dakota in 1940 in Mechanical Engineering.6545, 6978
Newspaper Articles
Evening Huronite, November 27, 19406978
Redfield Youth To Do Research At Aviation Laboratory
BROOKINGS, Nov. 27 — Keith Coxe, Redfield, graduate of the State College mechanical engineering department last June, has accepted an appointment to the world's largest aviation laboratory at Langley Field, Va., it was learned here today.
Directly under supervision of the national advisory committee on aeronautics, the Langley Field laboratory employs 750 men of whom 400 are graduate engineers. Equipment in the laboratory is valued at $12,000,000.
Coxe resigned a position with Consolidated Aircraft Company at Santiago, Cal., to accept the research appointment. As a junior engineer his work will be design of mechanism, instruments and structure used in connection with aircraft engines. At present he is working on apparatus for testing engine superchargers.
An artist as well as an engineer, Coxe painted murals on the walls of the grill room in the new State College union before leaving for California last summer.
Obituaries
Salt Lake Tribune, February 6, 1998168
Florence Elizabeth "Libby" Tilley Coxe
"Elizabeth" to her family; "Libby" to husband and friends and just "Mom" to us, left us on February 3, 1998, after many years of valiant struggle with pain and illness.
Though she will now be free of pain and happily reunited with many loved ones, we will miss her forever. Her greatest love and legacy was her children. Everyone who met her would fall for her sweet nature.
Mom was born July 17, 1917 to Charles Blaine and Fannie Henrietta Coleman Tilley in Mt. Airy, NC. She moved with her family to Pennsylvania and finally Bel Air, MD, when a teenager. Mom served in the Womens Army Corps (WAC) during World War II. She married Keith Edmund Coxe on October 27, 1946 in Webster, SD; he died February 15, 1985.
After many moves around the country in a trailer home, mom became a resident of Bountiful for 13 years before moving to Fresno, CA in 1971; Winston-Salem, NC in 1988; then back to Bountiful in 1994. As well as raising her family, she worked at the IRS Service Centers in Ogden and Fresno from 1967 to 1981. She is also preceded in death by her parents, a sister, and a brother.
Surviving are her children; Sandra, Bountiful, UT; Colton, Truckee, CA; Christopher (Terry), Eden Prairie, MN; Bryan, Bountiful, UT; grandaughter, Mikayla, Eden Prairie, MN; and sisters, Mrs. Nell Kincaid, Churchville, MD; Mrs. Edith Keen, Bel Air, MD.
Many thanks to the Hospice of Bountiful for their care and support, especially to Susan, Wade, Mary, Jody, Maude and Shari.
A memorial service will be held on February 6, 1998 at 6 p.m. at the Bountiful Community Church, 150 No. 400 East.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the South Davis Community Hospital, Hospice of Bountiful, 401 So. 400 East, Bountiful, UT 84010.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| April 4, 19406977 | Redfield, Spink, South Dakota |
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