Arthur Dwaine Cox, or A. D. as he was known to many, son of the late Arthur Marion Cox and Zoa Gray Cox, was born on October 6, 1937, in Puxico, Missouri, and passed away at his home in Dexter, Missouri on the evening of April 28, 2013 at the age of 75.

He was a resident of Dexter, formally of Cape Girardeau.  He graduated from Puxico High School in 1954 at the age of sixteen.  He married his wife, Shirley, in 1959, beginning a lasting partnership that remained for fifty-three years.  He also was a loving father of three children and eight grandchildren.

A. D. compiled a devoted and successful forty-four year career at Missouri Utilities (now Ameren-UE) with his final position being Southeast District Superintendent of Operations.  He was a member of the Masons, the Lions Club and was also actively involved in the Dexter Youth Baseball Program for several years.  Later in life, he added golf to his hobbies.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by one son, Michael D. Cox and his wife, Donna, of Chesterfield, Missouri; by two daughters, Paula Hutchcraft, and her husband, Bill, of Dexter, Missouri and Shelly Turlington and her husband, Todd, of Jackson, Missouri; by two sisters, Jewell Cookson and Pansy Barnfield, both of Puxico, Missouri; and by eight grandchildren, Matt Cox, Mitch Cox, Abbie Cox, Lauren Hutchcraft, Brooke Hutchcraft, Erika Hutchcraft, Katie Christian and Ryan Turlington

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 from 5:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. 

Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Rev. Lester Clayton officiating. 

Interment will follow in the Dexter Cemetery.