Kathryn Cox

Kathryn Kathy Cox, 72, of rural Marshalltown, died Friday, August 24th, at the Marshalltown Medical and Surgical Center. Funeral services celebrating her life will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, September 1st, at the First Baptist Church in Marshalltown with Pastors Dick Sipe and Conrad Lundberg officiating. She will be laid to rest in the Riverside Cemetery with a time of fellowship and refreshments by the ladies of the First Baptist Church at the Mitchell Funeral Home Hospitality Room. Friends may call at the Mitchell Family Funeral Home from 6-8:00 p.m. on Friday. A memorial fund is being established. For condolences, please visit www.mitchellfh.com. The Mitchell Family Funeral Home is caring for Kathy and her family. Ph 844-1234. Born Kathryn Van Dyke on February 7th, 1935, at home at Kellogg, Iowa, she was the only daughter born to Jacob C. and Sarah Marie (Van Rees) Van Dyke. She graduated from the Sully High School. On July 2nd, 1954, she was united in marriage to Noland Cox at the Baptist Temple in Marshalltown. They made their home in Marshalltown and moved to their acreage where they built their home northeast of Marshalltown about 46 years ago. Kathy was a woman of faith and was a member of the First Baptist Church family, helped with ministries of hospitality and help, taught 2 and 3 year olds, was a Sunday School teacher, an AWANA instructor, babysat and was a camp cook, Sonshine Preschool helper and cook, chairman of the ladies circle, white cross chairman, hospitality and devotional chairman, Gamos member, VBS teacher and director, assisted Nolands ministry at the Teamsters Union and AMF (American Missionary Fellowship) and helped in the ministry at the Meskwaki Friends Church. She loved children, cross-stitching, tatting, crocheting, playing the piano, and loved ice cream and chocolate. She also enjoyed animals, just not really cats. Left to cherish her memory are her five children: Denise Ann Cox of Marshalltown, Phil Cox of Marshalltown, David (Becky) Cox of Madeira, CA., Tim Cox of Johnston and Mary Ellen Cox of Marshalltown, three grandchildren: Daniel Noland Cox, Abigail Jean Cox and Jacob Landry Cox, half-brother Donald Van Dyke of Grinnell, half-sister Sharon Van Dyke of Grinnell, her step-mother Lucille Van Dyke of Grinnell, niece Jessica Van Dyke of Grinnell and nephew Bradley Doud of Las Vegas, as well as her church family and a host of friends. In heaven she has rejoined her parents, her beloved husband Noland, and her in-laws Harold and Mabel Cox. She was also preceded in death by her sister-in-law, Patricia Doud and nephew Mark Doud.