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J o Ann Cox, 86, of Bowling Green, passed away January 28, 2022, at Pike County Memorial Hospital in Louisiana, MO.

Jo Ann was born in New Hartford, MO on January 11th, 1936, the only child of Carey & Opal (Chernault) Motley. She graduated from Bowling Green High School in 1954. On October 3, 1954, she was united in marriage to Charles Lee Cox. Jo Ann and Charlie had 2 daughters, Connie and Rhonda. Jo Ann was a very hard worker. She helped Charlie in the fields and raised dogs when they lived on the farm at Stark. Later on, as her daughters had gotten older Jo Ann went back to school at the Pike-Lincoln Technical Center in Eolia and became an LPN in 1975. She worked at Pike County Memorial Hospital and Audrain Community Hospital. She loved to garden and grow flowers. Her yard always looked very nice in the summer. After she and Charlie retired, they would go south in the winter in their travel trailer and would repair chairs in the summer in the shop behind their house. Jo Ann became very good at putting finish on the chairs after Charlie repaired them and she was excellent at caning chairs. She was recognized by the Missouri Arts Council as a Master Chair caner and in October of 2005 she was invited by the Missouri Arts Council to demonstrate chair caning at the Capitol Rotunda in Jefferson City. Jo Ann was also an avid fisherman.

She was preceded in death by her mother in 1978 and her father in 1985.

She is survived by her husband of 67 years, Charlie, and 2 daughters Connie, and husband Mark Fisher of Papillion, NE, and Rhonda, and husband Mike Pugh of Bowling Green. Three grandsons, Brian Moss and his wife Ashley of Tampa, FL, Tom Pugh and fiancée Jessica Catron of Washington, MO and Danny Pugh of Bowling Green and his girlfriend Christyna Zheng of Chesterfield, MO.

Graveside services will be held in the spring. In lieu of flowers memorials made be made to the Smyrna Cemetery Association or the Trimble House in Louisiana. Memorial donations may be made to the donor's choice c/o McCoy Blossom Funeral Homes & Crematory,  701 North Business Highway 61, Bowling Green , MO, 63334, 1-573-213-5110. Friends and family are invited to visit our website at mccoyblossomfh.com to sign the on-online the guest register.