Educator, horticulturalist.
Born at the family farmstead (NE27-9-5W) in the Rural Municipality of Grey on 19 October 1922, daughter of Ethel Beatrice Goddard (1886-1954) and James Frost (1899-1936), she attended Wingham School, completed her grade 12 at St. Norbert Academy, attended the Central Normal School (1942-1943), and later obtained BA (1968) and BEd (1971) degrees from the University of Manitoba.
She became an educator, teaching on permit at New Scotland School (1941-1942) followed by Boyne School (1943-1945), and was Principal of Roseisle School (1945-1946) and Justice School (1946-1948). On 8 July 1948, she married Laval Oxwald Cox (?-2006) at Elm Creek United Church and together they had two daughters and two sons. While raising a family, she twice returned to Justice School, as Principal (1952) and teacher (1959-1960), after which she taught at Elton Collegiate (1961-1978) until retirement.
From 1977 through 1997, she and her husband operated Dorothy’s Greenhouse at Justice, where she was also actively involved at Justice United Church as choir leader and organist.
She moved to Marshall Manor at Carberry in 2014 and died at the Carberry Hospital on 7 May 2023.
Birth registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Justice,” Brandon Sun, 17 July 1948, page 6.
“Cox - Frost,” Brandon Sun, 17 July 1948, page 6.
Obituary [Laval Oswald Cox], Brandon Sun, 30 September 2006, page B9.
Obituary, Memories Chapel.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 11 June 2023
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