- Date Of Birth: November 13, 1930
- Date Of Death: January 13, 2014
- State: Maryland
Faye Anna Cantler Cox born on November 13, 1930 in Rising Sun, and then moved to North East, Maryland when she was 6 and spent the rest of her life in North East. She was one of nine children, born to Hugh and Etta Cantler, and lived on Beech Street until her marriage to Kelsey Cox, a boy she had gone to school with. They were married for 58 years and had three children, Holly Beth Rollins (Ellis Rollins), Kelsey Allan Cox (Beverly Cox) and Lisa Allison King (Curtis King).
She was a very private person. She loved to garden and was an avid reader. She loved baseball, and hated football. She was not a fan of television unless the O’s were playing.
She had three grandchildren, Kyle Bowers, Casey Bowers Warrington, and Andrew Cox, and four great grandchildren, Maggie Smith, Murphy Smith, Annie Warrington and Elliott Bowers.
As a young mother she encouraged her children to join any activity there were happy doing. She was secretary for the PTA, Cookie Chairman for the Girls Scouts and Brownies, and Den Mother for the Cub Scouts. She was a chaperone for the North East High School Cheerleaders, and must have made a million brownies for fundraisers.
She loved talking about World War II days when she was a volunteer for the Airplane Spotters Post after school.
She taught her children how to be homemakers, and that there wasn’t a job they couldn’t do. They proved her right many times.
She had one of those families that are very rare -they actually liked each other- and the whole family had a closeness that you just don’t find in a whole family anymore.
Her family was the most important thing in her life. She had one hard and fast rule –“Do not interfere in your adult children’s lives!” She had what she called “nannyisms” and made sure everyone knew what they were. For example, “You are not mad, you are angry. Only dogs go mad.”
Faye wrote the obituary notice above on January 23, 2012. Let her family add that she was admired, respected, and deeply, deeply loved.
