Paul A. Cox M.D.

Born June 12, 1908, in East Pennsboro Township, he was a son of the late Luther E. and Esther Jane (Whenry) Cox.

Dr. Cox attended East Dunmore High School and graduated from Quarryville High School, both in Lancaster County. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and served his internship at Lancaster General Hospital.

He began his career in medicine as a general practitioner in Newville prior to World War II during which time he was Carlisle Hospital's Chief of Obstetrics. During the war, he served as a flight surgeon in the Army Air Force and trained in the School of Tropical Medicine at Walter Reed Medical Center. He was later stationed in Newfoundland and Labrador.

After his military service, he served his eye, ear, nose and throat residency at New York Polyclinic Hospital in New York City and Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary in Newark, N.J. . He then began his practice in Carlisle and became Carlisle Hospital's first broncoscopist.

He was a member and former elder at Second Presbyterian Church, Carlisle; a member of Big Spring Masonic Lodge 361 F and AM; and a board member of American Trauma Society. He was past president of Cumberland County EMS, Carlisle Hospital medical staff and the Cumberland County Medical Society.

He was also a member of Pennsylvania Medical Society and had served on its interspecialty and legislative committees. He was also a past president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and received its distinguished service award. For several years, he served as the legislative chairman for the academy. Dr. Cox also was a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

He was a founding member of Physicians Education Network and a former board member of the American Red Cross. He had served as a Medical Missionary at Kano Eye Hospital in Nigeria and had been previously selected as Carlisle's Finest in the Health and Medicine field.

He was an avid golfer and member of the Carlisle Country Club, Pinehurst Country Club in Pinehurst, N.C., and The Hole-in-One Society.

He is survived by his wife of 24 years, Julia (Hall) Cox; a son, Michel of New York City, N.Y.; a brother, the Rev. Harry L. Cox of Sebring, Fla., and several nieces and nephews. Dr. Cox was preceded in death by his first wife, Mary (Young) Cox, who died in the late 1970s.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Second Presbyterian Church, 528 Garland Drive, Carlisle, with Rev. Dr. James A. Gilchrist officiating. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery, Shippensburg.

Friends may call from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Sunday in the church.

Ewing Brothers Funeral Home, Carlisle, is in charge of the arrangements.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the American Trauma Society, 6706 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050.