Shirley Cox

Mrs. Shirley Dixon Drye Cox, age 86 of Concord, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 9, 2021 at Tucker Hospice House.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 pm Monday, December 13 at Wilkinson Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held in the funeral home chapel at 2 pm with Rev. Joey Morrison officiating. Burial will follow at Cabarrus Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Cox was born February 15, 1935 in Stanly County and was a daughter of the late Flave T. Drye and Edna Smith Drye. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Roy E. Cox and a sister, Evelyn Roseman. She enjoyed reading, doing cross word and seek and find puzzles, and traveling, especially bus tours.

Survivors include her daughters, Shirlene Keasler and husband, Lewis, Darlene Freeze and husband, Coy, and Teresa Smith and husband, Chris; grandchildren, Brad Keasler, April Coble, Steve and Mike Freeze, Chris Linker, and Jimmy Smallwood; 7 great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Memorial Processing, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959.