Wanda Carol Cox was peacefully called home on November 30, 2024, at the age of 85.


A "Celebration of Life" will be held on Tuesday, December 17, at 1 p.m., reception following, at the Kirk of the Hills in Tulsa, where she was a longtime member.


Known to all as Carol, she was born May 22, 1939 in San Angelo, Texas, the only child of William Clarence Tandy Cox and Minnie Bell Haynes Cox. She spent several years on her family's Equilateral Triangle Ranch. Carol had fond memories of standing on the porch to be able to get onto a horse to ride behind a parent, before eventually having a pony of her own. Carol attended Ardmore High School before moving to Oklahoma City, where she graduated from U.S. Grant High School in 1957. She was an honor roll student and a member of the newspaper and yearbook staffs.


While working as a telephone operator for Southwestern Bell in Oklahoma City, Carol met and then married James T. Hogue. The couple had a daughter, Rashel Leanne. The family resided in Sapulpa and then Mannford. Following the couple's divorce, Carol returned to the workforce at Cimarron Bell. She later moved to Tulsa and worked in the records divisions of St. Francis Hospital and of the Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital, before retiring in 2004.


Carol had a talent and a passion for genealogy. She spent countless hours in libraries, courthouses, and cemeteries tracing her family's lineage and history. A Certified Genealogist, Carol didn't just research on her own behalf, preceding Ancestry.com as a resource to help others learn more about their family tree. She volunteered for more than 15 years in the genealogy department at the Tulsa Public Library.


Carol also had a love for history and its preservation. She was proud to have joined the Nancy Green Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution during the Bicentennial in 1976. She was a member and held multiple offices in not only the DAR, but also chapters of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, United Daughters of the Confederacy, National Society of United States Daughters of 1812, the First Families of the Twin Territories, and the National Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. The UDC awarded her the Winnie Davis Medal for outstanding contributions beyond the required duties of membership excluding the realm of history in 2012, and she received the Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Award from the Oklahoma Department of the SUVCW in recognition of her significant service and demonstration of high levels of leadership in 2022.


Carol also had tremendous respect for veterans of the armed forces, logging 2,379 volunteer hours in her 15 years at the Tulsa Veterans Affairs Clinic.


Carol was a lifelong sports fan, and would want to remind everyone to cheer for the New York Yankees and the Oklahoma State Cowboys.


She was blessed to have a network of friends in her life, so many of whom remained in contact throughout her physical battles these last nine months. Her family wants to thank Jae Jaeger, Lisa Hansen, Kathy Huber, and others for their regular visits and communications and also the staffs at St. Francis, Oklahoma State University Medical Center, Glenwood Skilled Nursing and Physical Therapy, Elara Hospice, and Home Instead for their care.


Carol was preceded in death by her parents and is survived by her daughter, Rashel, and son-in-law, Jack Carnefix of Perkins, Oklahoma, and cousins Betty Sue Clarke, Doug and Martha Cude, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, and Ivanne Haynes Salazar of Salt Lake City, Utah.

The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made to Nancy Green Chapter, DAR - Veterans Project, c/o Phoebe Jackson, 22702 W. 131st St. So., Sapulpa, OK 74066-7457.