Cox, Esther Dickerson

Esther Dickerson Cox, 89, of Radford, passed away Sunday, September 28, 2008. She retired from Kenrose and loved to travel and to quilt. She was preceded in death by her husband, Estle J. Cox, Sr., two sons, Isaac and Kenneth Cox, two brothers, Glen and Edgar Dickerson, and a sister, Clydia Marshall. Survivors include two daughters and son-in-law, May Belle and Theodore Dishon of Dublin and Edith Young of Va. Beach; a son and daughter-in-law Estle, Jr. and Elaine Cox of Dublin; a daughter-in-law, Patricia Cox of Hiwassee; 16 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; three sisters, Eula Weeks of Md., and Vesta Alderman and Uldine Duncan, both of Willis; two sisters-in-law, Lettie Dickerson of Radford and Madaline and Guy Hogan of Forest; and a brother-in-law, Victor Cox of Christiansburg. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 11 a.m. at the Mullins Funeral Home in Radford with the Rev. Ronnie Duncan and the Rev. Roy Turpin officiating. Interment will follow in the Big Sand Cemetery in Indian Valley. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Monday evening at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers the family requests that contributions be made to the American Cancer Society, 2840 Electric Road, Suite 106A, Roanoke, Va., 24018. The Cox family is in the care of Mullins Funeral Home & Crematory in Radford, www.mullinsfuneralome.com