Wilbur Wallace Cox, 81, husband, father, church leader, business executive and community leader passed away on May 15, 1994.
He was born in Manti, Utah on October 23, 1912, the son of Roy Wilbur and Maud Goldie Brown Cox. He married Leonora Fern Bench on June 15, 1937, in the Manti LDS Temple. His family includes three daughters and their husbands: Karen and Richard Macfarlane, Salt Lake City; Martha and Joseph Merrill Ballantyne, Ithaca, New York; Susan and Brent Richman, Beaverton, Oregon; 20 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; one sister and her husband; Margaret Cox and Stanley Voorhees, Manti, Utah.He earned an associates degree in engineering from Snow College, Ephraim, Utah in 1932, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1935. He began his career with Western Electric, later worked for Utah Power and Light, and then transferred to an insurance engineering firm, Board of Fire and Underwriters of the Pacific in Salt Lake until joining the U.S. Navy in 1942.
His military service during World War II began with officers' indoctrination school at Fort Schuyler, New York followed by training in MIT and Bowdoin College in radar and other top-secret military system. He then served as superintendent of training for all electronic equipment used by U.S. aircraft and by many Allied air fleets. He achieved the rank of Lt. Cdr.
Following the war, he continued his career as a consulting engineer and then as insurance manager and chief safety engineer for Sylvania Electric Products in New York City. In 1951 he moved to the Boston area where he worked as manager and alter president of Arrow Mutual Liability Insurance Company until his retirement in 1968.
He served as president of the California Oakland Mission from 1968-1971, president of the Manti Temple from 1977 to 1985, president of the Manti Stake from 1972-1977 and as first president of the Boston Stake formed 1962-1968.
A man of great vision, integrity and hard work, he made major contributions to this world, particularly in his church service.
Funeral services will be Wednesday, May 18, 1994 at 12 noon in the Manti 6th LDS Ward Chapel where friends may call Tuesday 7 - 9 p.m. and Wednesday 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the chapel. Interment in the Manti City Cemetery under the direction of Buchanan Mortuary.
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