A former mayor of Kenilworth has died in Leamington aged 80.
Peggy Grace Cox (nee Furminger) was Kenilworth mayor in 1991 and the first mayoress after the local government reorganisation when her husband Jack was mayor in 1973.
She was born in Coventry in 1926 and during the war was evacuated to Fenny Compt
on.
On her return home she worked for the Red Cross at Ragley Hall, which served as a military medical centre.
After the war, she went on to work at The Humber and met and married Jack Cox.
They moved to Kenilworth and had their daughter Janet in 1953, now also deceased.
Jack became a councillor and the first mayor in Kenilworth in 1973 and Peggy was mayoress.
On his passing in 1982, she was then persuaded to run for his seat and in 1983 joined the council representing St John's ward.
She served on a number of committees including Kenilworth in Bloom, she was treasurer of the carnival and was also a school governor.
She became mayor in 1991 and her consort was her son-in-law Charles Lloyd-Jones.
In the late nineties she showed signs of early dementia and in 2002 went to live in Clarence House residential home in Leamington.
She passed away on August 14, 2007 leaving behind her two brothers Harold and Stanley and her grandchildren David, 23, and Caroline, 21.
The funeral service will take place at St Nicholas Church in Kenilworth on Tuesday, August 28 at 1.30pm followed by cremation at Oakley Wood.
Family flowers only, but donation cheques payable to Myton Hospice may be sent c/o John Taylor Funeralcare, 178 Warwick Road, Kenilworth CV8 1HU.
The full article contains 284 words and appears in Kenilworth Weekly News newspaper.
