Lori Ann Cox, the daughter of Robert and Marion (Greenlaw) Brown was born on March 30, 1966, at Concord, New Hampshire She died on Dec. 14, 2024, at the Salina Regional Health Center at Salina Kansas at the age of 58 years 8 months and 14 days.
She attended and graduated from Woodland High School at Woodland Maine. After high school, she attended the University of Southern Maine for one year with her studies being in nursing. She then enlisted in the United States Air Force as a Morse Systems operator, but after several bottles of aspirin and sleepless nights hearing morse code, she decided to change career fields. Lori completed training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, as a law enforcement specialist. She was then assigned to the 3rd Law Enforcement Squadron at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. This is where she met and married David Cox. To this marriage two children were born, Nicholas and Matthew.
After separating from the Air Force and moving to Belleville Kansas, Lori worked as a dental assistant for Dr. Richard Smith until she and her family moved to Oak Grove, Kentucky. Lori continued her work as a dental assistant in Clarksville, Tennessee, and enrolled in classes for her nursing degree at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville. Upon her graduation, she took a job at St Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked in a critical care unit. When Lori and her family moved back to Belleville in 2007, she took a position at the Republic County Hospital where she worked and cared for patients and made lifelong friendships with patients and staff until her death.
Lori was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Marion (Greenlaw) Brown, her brother, Robert Brown Jr.
She is survived by her husband, David Cox of Belleville; her children, Nicholas (Gabbi) Cox Belleville, Matthew (Sarah) Cox of Belleville; and three grandchildren, Morrigan, Asher and Dean Cox; siblings, Michael Brown, Ricky Brown and Debra Seavey; and step-brothers, Chick McCoubrey and Pete McCoubrey of Maine and a host of other relatives and friends.
Lori's Celebration of Life will take place at 10;30 a.m., Saturday, April 26, at Megrue-Price Funeral Home Chapel in Superior, Nebraska.
Memorials in care of the family.
Condolences may be sent to Megrue-Price Funeral Home, 750 N Commercial, Superior, Nebraska 68978 or in care of www.pricefuneral homes.com.
Megrue-Price Funeral Home of Superior, Nebraska was in charge of the arrangements.
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