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David Cox

Lafayette, California

1936 - 2024

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David Cox07/21/1936 - 07/05/2024Born in Oakland, California; son to Mabel Regan Cox and Horace Gilbert Cox. Graduated from Oakland High School and UC Berkeley, where he was a member of Sigma Nu. Attended Hastings Law School. He went on to have a 40-year career with California Savings and Loan as...

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A true gentleman. Good friend. One cannot say enough about Dave, or good things exist to fully describe him. We know he will be sorely missed by anyone who knew him. Truly sad that he is gone. We admired, and prized his friendship, and only sorry that we lived a good distance from him for we would have liked to visit him, and the family more often. Our love to Joan, and the kids. We thought of him often, and will once again as time goes by. With love, F.X., and June Radnich

Many great memories from our teenage and college years at Oakland High and Cal. Highlights were the many great summers on the Tuolumne River diving into its icy water at the camp where Dave worked and our employment by the Piedmont Recreation Department where Dave met Joan and I met Nellie (Eleanor Holcombe) who became my wife. It was Dave who got me that job which ended up shaping my adult life. We were political rivals in high school facing off in an election for Student Body President...