Carol Cox died following a short illness at 7:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, at Caldwell County Medical Center in Princeton.
She was born on April 6, 1948, in Caldwell County to the late R.B. Cook and Flossie Young Cook.
She is survived by one sister, Brenda Maloney of Hopkinsville; two sons, Richard Cox and Robert Cox, both of Princeton; one daughter, Samantha Lopez of Bowling Green; nine grandchildren, Jacob and Kayla Cox, Cameron and Tyler Crawford, Amanda and Bobby Cox, Kendra and Jasmine Richardson and Amyia Lopez-Jackson; and one great-grandchild, Izzabella Nelson.


