Patricia M. Cox

Visitation for Patricia M. "Pat" Cox, 78, of Kankakee, will be from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Clancy-Gernon-Hertz Funeral Home, west Kankakee. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Teresa Catholic Church, Kankakee. Father Sonny Castillo will officiate. Burial will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth. Memorials may be made to St. Teresa Catholic Church. She died Thursday (July 21, 2011) at Provena St. Mary's Hospital. Mrs. Cox was a secretary for the U.S. Army in Chicago and Joliet, a guidance secretary for Bishop McNamara High School, and a secretary at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Bradley and at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Center. She was born June 12, 1933, in Chicago, the daughter of William J. and Agnes Mary Bonczkowski Dalton. She was a graduate of St. David Grade School and old St. Patrick High School. She attended Loop Business College and Kankakee Community College. She was a teacher's aide at St. Teresa Grade School and taught CCD at St. Teresa Catholic Church. She was past president of St. Teresa Council of Catholic Women, past secretary and member of St. Teresa Parish Council and past co-president of Bishop McNamara Parents Club. Surviving are her husband, William A. Cox, of Kankakee, whom she married Sept. 17, 1955, at St. David Roman Catholic Church, in Chicago; two sons and daughters-in-law, Matt and Rita Cox, of Menasha, Wis., and Mark and Debbi Cox, of Wilmington; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Sharon and Richard Lee Trudeau, of Winter Haven, Fla., Susan and John Phelps, of Kailua, Hawaii, and Sandy Cox, of Charleston. She was a proud nana to Angela Cox, Adam Cox, Brett Trudeau, Ryan Trudeau, Alex Trudeau, Nicholas Cox, Zachary Cox, Abbey Cox, Samantha Phelps, Georgi Phelps, Bobby Phelps and Bo Phelps; and great-granddaughter, Ada Lynn Cox. She is also survived by one sister, Mary J. Kelly, of Chicago; one sister-in-law, Mary Lou Dalton, of Chicago; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; one grandson, Willis; and two brothers, John "Jack" Dalton and William Dalton. Pat lived every day like it was her last.

Patricia M. Cox

June 12, 1933 - July 21, 2011