Mrs. Rose R. Cox

NAPLES – Rose R. Cox, 80, passed away peacefully at her home on November 27, 2010 with her loving family by her side after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. She was born on June 26, 1930 at the family farm on Paris Hill. She attended school in South Paris and graduated from Paris High School in 1949. She worked for many years at Wilner Wood Products and also was employed by Burnham & Morrill Company, Paris Manufacturing Company, Norway Nursing Home, Norway Shoe Shop and also worked as a mail carrier in Waterford.

She married the late Jere Cox in 1967 and lived in North Norway for many years before moving to Waterford until the passing of her husband. She then moved to Naples to live with her son, daughter and son-in-law. She was a very devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who always put everyone else’s needs before her own. She had many interests in life from canning vegetables, cooking, reading, snowmobiling, ceramics and since moving to Naples, boating on Sebago Lake with her family.

Mrs. Cox is survived by her son, Randal Millett; her daughter, Rosemarie Dyer and her husband Scott of Naples; her granddaughters, Mandie Riseman and her husband Max, Nickie Lasselle and Stacie Lasselle; her great-grandchildren, Aaryana, Aliyaha and Rex Riseman; her sister, Jeannette Truman and husband Ned and their children Laurie Truman, Debbie Harrington, Wendall Truman, Ronnie Truman and Wayne Truman; her niece, Karen Farris and her son Kaleb; her nephew, Kevin Ronkko and her step-children, Joan Morgan and her husband Gordan, Jane Kimball, Joline Witham, Janice Buck and Jerald Cox. She was predeceased by her husband, Jere Cox; mother, Hilda Matthews; father, Laurie Ronkko and brothers, Eino Ronkko, Raymond Ronkko and Albert Ronkko.

Funeral services will be held at Chandler Funeral Home, 45 Main St., South Paris, on Thursday, December 2 at 2 p.m. Family and friends called at the funeral home Wednesday evening. Interment will be a private ceremony for close family and friends at the Norway Center Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Southern Maine Hospice, 180 US Rte. 1, Scarborough, ME 04074. On-line messages of sympathy may be left for her family at www.chandlerfunerals.com.

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Mrs. Rose R. Cox