Margaret Cox daughter of the late P.D. Allen and Ilah Oberbey Allen was born on June 21, 1926 in Lamar, Arkansas and departed this life on December 9, 2015 at the Cypress Point Skilled Nursing Center in Dexter at the age of 89.

Mrs. Cox was a member of the Dexter Church of Christ and a resident of Dexter.  She had worked at the Collier Company as a licensed real estate agent before retiring.

On November 25, 1972 she was united in marriage to Paul Bland Cox in Dexter.  Mr. Cox preceded her in death on August 22, 2011.

She is survived by one son, Ron and his wife Nora Hardin of Dexter; by three daughters, Carolyn and her husband Jim Bowling of Puxico, Patricia Burge of Poplar Bluff and Karen and her husband Gary Blocker of Poplar Bluff; by seven grandchildren, Tonya Pride, Scott and wife Jennifer Bowling, Misty and husband Michael Wiseman, Cory and wife Stacy Blocker, Justin Hardin, Emilee Young and Sarah Kingree; by sixteen great grandchildren; one great-great grandson; by one brother, Larry Allen of Las Vegas, Nevada; by one step-son, Ronald Lee Cox of Branson, Missouri and by one step-daughter, Connie and husband Willard Bean of Jefferson City, Missouri.

Besides her husband and parents she was preceded in death by three brothers, Harold Dean Allen, D.F. Allen and John Allen, and by one sister, Billie Jean Allen.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Saturday, December 12, 2015 from 11:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M. 

Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 1:00 P.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter with Stan Dauck officiating. 

Interment will follow in the Dexter Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers the family requests all memorials be made to the Stoddard County Children’s Home, P.O. Box 164, Dexter, Missouri 63841.