Percy Terrell Cox

He was married to Anne W. Cox for sixty-five years and had two children, Cindy Annice Cox and Catherine Terrell Cox. Terry Cox was born in 1939 to Percy Marion and Elizabeth Townes Cox, and was raised on a farm outside of Jackson, Mississippi. He attended Forest Hill high school and earned an Electrical Engineering degree at Mississippi State University. At MSU he was in the Blue Key honor society and a member of the ROTC. After college he served in the army as a First Lieutenant for three years at Redstone

Arsenal, teaching electronics at their Ordnance Guided Missile School. As a result of his teaching there, he went on to teach for a decade in the Houston Community College.

He had a long career at the Exploration and Production Technology Division at Texaco, working at their facility in Bellaire, Texas for thirty-four years. Through his work at Texaco, he developed more than twenty-five patents. He retired in 1994 from Texaco,

moving to a home in Conroe that he and his wife designed and built.

At age twelve, Terry Cox became the youngest licensed Amateur radio operator in Mississippi, with call number W5DRM. He came back to Ham radio after his retirement and was an enthusiast who delighted in conversing in Morse code with almost every country in the world.

Terry loved music and taught himself to play the guitar and banjo. He also loved nature and spent many happy vacations with his family exploring the state parks of Texas, Arkansas, and Colorado in their RV. And he had a passion for woodworking, building

fine cabinetry for clock works that he and his wife found by scouring antique shops.

He is survived by his wife, his two children, and grandchildren Sophia Campion, Danielle Cantor-Cox, and Garrett Cantor-Cox, as well as his younger siblings May Williams and David Cox.

A Celebration of Life will be held at Metcalf Funeral Directors, located at 1801 East White Oak Terrace, Conroe, Texas, on January 12, 2026, starting at 11:00 am.

Following the Celebration of Life, a Graveside Service and Interment will take place at Garden Park Cemetery, 801 Teas Rd, Conroe, Texas, at 12:00 pm.