Sandra Jo Cox, 63, daughter of Earlene Berry Bailey & the late Billy Glaser Bailey, was born on July 27, 1956 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. She departed this life on Thursday, February 13, 2020, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Sandra Jo Cox was a calculus teacher at SMU in Dallas, Texas and was head of the math department & also the department chair at Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas.  She was united in marriage to Rusty Cox on July 1, 1979 in Memphis, Tennessee. He preceded her in death in September of 1999.

Her survivors include mother, Earlene Bailey of Malden; sister: Lisa Dahlquist & husband, John of Laguna Niguel, California; two Nephews, Erik & William Dahlquist of Laguna Niguel, California and fiancé, Dennis Demaree of Lewisville, TX

She was preceded in death by her father, Billy Glaser Bailey.

Visitation will be held on Monday, February 17, 2020 from 1-2 P.M. at the Landess Funeral Home Chapel in Malden. Funeral services will follow at 2:00 P.M. with Reverend Aulden LeBlanc officiating.

Interment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Malden, Missouri.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the National Kidney Foundation, Finance Department, 30 East 33rd St., New York, NY 10016 or to the First Southern Baptist Church in Malden, 209 W Howard St, Malden, MO 63863.