On May 12, 2018 Colonel Stanley D. Cox, USMC, (retired) passed away after a long and well-lived life. He will be greatly missed by his family. Stanley was born on July 10, 1929 in Chicago, IL.
He attended the University of Chicago and graduated in 1947 with a degree in chemistry; he earned several advanced degrees from the Naval Postgraduate School and the George Washington University.
Stanley was a Marine Aviator, an electronics expert, and a combat veteran of Korea and Vietnam. His many awards included the Vietnam Service Medal with 11 campaign stars, the Bronze Star with the Combat Distinguishing Device, and the Legion of Merit.
Following his retirement from the Marine Corps, Stanley was a project engineer for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. He spent many happy years in Maryland, both on his small farm near Sykesville and in Perry Hall. Stanley lived his final years with his daughter Victoria and her husband Steven in Blacksburg, Va. Stanley was preceded in death by two wonderful wives Marilyn H. Cox and Mary E. Hearn, and by his son Jack B. Cox. He leaves behind his step-mother Helen Cox, half-brother Dennis Cox and his wife Pat, daughter Deborah E. Cox-Wonch and her husband Howard, daughter Victoria A. Mouras and her husband Steven, son Christopher M. Cox and his wife Carter, and three much-beloved grandchildren, Joshua M. Mouras, Sarah A. Cox, and Marian E. Cox. He is also survived by his second wife’s loving family Moira Schwartz and her husband Henry, Jeanne Hearn, John Hearn, Jr. and his wife Janis, Sheila Bragg and her husband Robert, Dennis Hearn and his wife Janine, Frances Hearn and her husband Jon Holz, Grace Hearn and her husband Michael Savage, Katie Hearn Zang and her husband Chris, 18 Hearn grandchildren and 9 Hearn great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Parkinson’s Research Foundation, the Good Samaritan Hospice in Christiansburg, VA, or the Warm Hearth Foundation in Blacksburg, VA. Interment will be at the Garrison Forest Veteran’s Cemetery in Maryland.
