MILDRED COX, 95, of Ahwatukee in Phoenix, Arizona, passed away peacefully on October 21, 2020, after a courageous battle with old age. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Beau Mont Laster and Nina Treva Neal Laster, she now joins them in heaven.
Mildred graduated Memphis State College (now Memphis University) and was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority and president of Xi Beta Nu her senior year. Mildred won first place in Memphis State’s beauty pageant her freshman year and was a member of Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges.
After college, Miss Laster was a home economist. She contributed to a newspaper column in The Commercial Appeal, sharing recipes and homemaking advice. In 1954, she married Howard “Bill” Cox and started a family. The couple moved to Southern California before making their home in Arizona in 1963.
As a member of the Episcopal Church, Mildred was church secretary for St. Stephen’s and then St. Barnabas-on-the-Desert in Scottsdale. She was a founding member of Calvary Church of the Valley and later attended Peoples’ Church. She was active with Calvary Chapel, Tri-City, for the past thirty years. Mrs. Cox had a special love for Israel and the Jewish people and traveled there several times, a high point in her life which she would never forget.
Mrs. Cox enjoyed several years with the Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary of Tempe before becoming its president 1975-1976.
In 1976, Mildred and Bill opened a wholesale air conditioning business: Central Distributing Division and Mission Manufacturing Corp., which featured their patented Up-Dux ceiling vent, (an invention of Mr. Cox), which improved the comfort as well as security of homes throughout the southwestern United States.
Mildred was preceded in death by her parents, her sister Frances Laster Grantham, and her husband. She is survived by three daughters: Linda Cox Goss, Julia Cox and Carole Cox Lockwood, of the Phoenix area. She also leaves four grandchildren: Heather Shafe of Phoenix; Erika Shafe Taylor of Garden City, MI; Rachael Lincoln of San Antonio, TX; and Cassidy Bukovinsky of Maricopa, AZ; as well as six great-grandchildren: Grace, Emma, Boston, Dorothy, Penelope, and Chad, Jr. Mildred is also survived by her sister Edna Vickers of Conway, SC; and niece Sharon Laxton and daughter Hollye Ferguson of Cordova, TN.
Mildred had a sweet soul. She was soft-spoken and gentle, yet an immovable rock when it came to the power of prayer. A woman of great faith, she will be dearly missed by all who have loved her, but are comforted in the knowledge that it is only until we meet again.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to The Salvation Army. www.salvationarmyphoenix.org
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