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George Edwin Fox

6 Jun 1919 – 24 Jan 2017

Birth6 Jun 1919
Death24 Jan 2017
CemeteryOakdale Cemetery
Oakdale , Antelope County , Nebraska , USA
Added byk.n on 29 May 2017
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175667030

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Norfolk Daily News - Jan 25, 2017 TILDEN — Services for George E. Fox, 97, of Tilden will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Immanual Lutheran Fellowship Hall in Tilden. John Petersen will officiate with burial in the Oakdale Cemetery in Oakdale. Military honors will be provided by VFW Post 7603, American Legion Post 170 and American Legion Riders. Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Friday at Brockhaus-Harlan Funeral Home in Tilden. 1919-2017 He died Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, at Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk at the age of 97 years, seven months, 18 days. George Edwin Fox was born in Tilden at his parents’ home on June 6, 1919, to James A. and Jenny Evangeline (Chapman) Fox. He attended school in Tilden, graduating with the class of 1939. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1940 to 1945 as a radio operator on a PBY Catalina air/sea rescue plane in the Pacific Theater as a sergeant. While in the service, he met Barbara Sue Hodges of Nashville, Tenn., on July 5, 1942, and married her on Dec. 26, 1942, in Franklin, Ky. They celebrated their 74th wedding anniversary this past month. To this union, nine children were born: Sharon, George, Sue, Jim, Laura, Marilyn, Don, Richard and Karolyn. George worked as a carpenter for Beckenhauer Construction of Norfolk from 1947 to 1973, before moving to Fort Myers, Fla., and working for Rutenberg Homes until 1982. He then continued working in construction and remodeling until he was in his 80s. He was a member of the Winkler Road Baptist Church in Fort Myers. They moved back to Tilden full time in 2009. George was a member of the American Legion Post 170 for 57 consecutive years and also a member of the IOOF for several years while in Tilden. His favorite pastimes were playing cards, dominos, chicken tracks, cribbage and doing cryptograms and board puzzles until recently when his vision declined. Up to the end, George had excellent recollection of past history and people in and around the Tilden area and was able to name people and where they lived on different farms and in Tilden, dating back to the 1920s. Survivors include his spouse, Barbara of Tilden; children: Sharon (Lee) Klein of Norfolk, George Fox (Peggy Congelton) of Tilden, Sue (Dennis) Kleider of Omaha, Jim (Mary) Fox, Laura (Don) Rutjens and Marilyn (Ron) Eymann, all of Tilden, Don (Ann) Fox of Lehigh, Fla., Richard (Joann) Fox of Cape Coral, Fla., and Karolyn (Larry) Noughton of Fort Myers. He was adored by his 33 grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren, who loved him for more than the Tootsie Rolls and dollar bills that he gave them. He is also survived by two sisters-in-law, Jean Fox of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Patty Fox of Fort Myers; and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, James and Eva Fox; brothers Ralph, Ira (Babe) and James Leroy; sisters Ruth and Alice; and an infant great-grandson, Elliot Fox Kottas.

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