Joyce Arlene Cox

Funeral services for Joyce Forehand Cox will be held on Monday, June 30, 2014, at 2:00 p.m., at Austin Street Church of Christ, in Levelland, Texas, with Jay Kelley, Evangelist, officiating. Interment will be at the City of Levelland Cemetery.

Mrs. Cox passed away Friday, June 27, 2014, after a long battle with Cancer. She was born September 22, 1933, to Artie and Jessie Forehand, in Levelland, TX. She graduated from Levelland High School in 1951. On July 3, 1951, she married the love of her life, Dale Cox in Levelland. They made their first home in Colorado Springs, CO, where Dale was stationed in the Army. They were eventually blessed with three children. Dale and Joyce made several moves over the years, to Levelland, Bovina, Coyanosa, Sterling City, Kingsland and finally back to Leveland. Joyce loved her Church famlies in all the towns where they lived, and always said that she was blessed to have had so many loving Christian friends in so many interesting places. She made it her business to become a vital part of each congregation. The root of her Christian faith was always with the Austin Street Church of Christ in Levelland. In 1965, Joyce became an LVN after training at South Plains College. She worked at the Levelland Hospital as well as various nursing homes until she retired in 1999. Anyone who knew her knew that she was a wonderful caregiver.

Joyce is survived by her hus-band Dale, her son Wilton and wife Karen, her daughter Car-olyn and husband, Steve Boles, her son Stan and wife, Susan. She is also survived by 9 grandchildren, Trenton Cox, Brandon Cox, Devon and Christy Cox, Triston and An-drew Frost, Taylor Hord, Barry and Heather Boles, Marshall and Kellyann Boles, Ashley Boles, and Sarah and Nick Lewis. She was the proud Great-Grandmother of 9, Zayden Cox, Lyric, Story, Cadence, and Coda Cox, Harper Frost, Gus and Charlie Boles, and Bennett Boles. She is also survived by two sisters, Jean Dunlap, and Mary and Jimmy Airhart, two brothers, Steve and Linda Forehand, and Art and Margie Forehand; she is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.

Her favorite charities were the Lubbock and Eastern New Mexico Children's Homes.