Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 14:07:07 :
Independent Journal
Monday, June 15, 1964
Page 4
WARD COX Succumbs
Ward Cox, 70, of Kentfield, a retired official of the Federal Housing Administration, died yesterday in a San Francisco hospital after a short illness.
He was one of the pioneer developers of the Sunset District in San Francisco, and worked on the original development of Glenwood in San Rafael.
He was assistant commissioner to the Federal Housing Administrator in Washington, D.C., from 1950 to 1956, and before that, served as wartime regional rent control director for all the 11 western states and housing expeditor for the federal government.
He was a past president of the San Francisco Home builders Assn., and a member of the San Francisco Real Estate Board, San Francisco Press Club and Olympic Club.
Cox was active in Democratic party affairs, and in the Masonic order and the Shrine for many years.
A resident of Marin County about five years, he lived at 121 Kent Avenue, Kentfield.
He leaves his wife, Edna; a daughter, Mrs. Barbara Sitkin of Belvedere; a son, Donald W. Cox of Barrington, Ill.; a brother, Roy Cox of Woodland, and six grandchildren.
Funeral will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Halstead and Co., 1123 Sutter Street, San Francisco. Burial will be in Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Colma.
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A Death Notice in the same paper adds that he was also the father of the late Lt. Ward Cox Jr.
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