- Date Of Birth: July 19, 1919
- Date Of Death: February 5, 2016
- State: Idaho
Peacefully on Feb. 5, 2016 at her home in Avon, Margarette M. Halseth Cox passed from this life into her eternal life. She was 96. She was born July 19, 1919 at the Halseth Montana homestead in Conrad, Mt.; shortly thereafter her family moved to Kendrick, Id. to the Halseth homestead on Big Bear Ridge. She graduated from Kendrick High School in 1937 and the St. Joseph School of Nursing in Lewiston, Idaho, in 1940. She enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to Bakersfield Hospital, in Pasadena, Ca. where she married the late Stanley Paul Cox in June of 1944 in Van Nuys, California. In the late “60s” she went back to nursing and held the distinction of being the supervisor over employees at the Alexandria Hospital, in Alexandria, Va. During her time there she was successful in educating the hospital staff on the dangers of smoking and had an employee health program which was made up of all non-smokers. She was considered a pro-activist for the “nonsmoking” cause in the “70’s”. After thirty years of traveling around the world with the Air Force, she and Stan returned home to Idaho in 1976 where she was never happier. She loved Idaho. Those who knew Margarette knew her as a leader in her community and wherever she and Stan’s military life led them. In Japan as a young wife and mother she would entertain her neighboring Japanese and share with them her American customs and ways of life; in Germany she did the same. She enjoyed people, had a love of singing and a heart that would help anyone who needed help.
