Dora Mae Cox Coburn, 93, of Tifton passed away Monday, June 23, 2025, at her residence. Her funeral service will be held at 3:00 p.m. Friday, June 27, 2025, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals with the Rev. Michael Marchant officiating. Mrs. Coburn will be laid to rest at Oak Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday, June 27, 2025, in the Chapel of Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals from 2:00 p.m. until the hour of the service.
Born May 10, 1932, in Berrien County, Mrs. Coburn was the daughter of the late Jimmy Jackson Cox and Clara Pearl Taylor Cox. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Coburn was preceded in death by her husband of 71 years, James Newton Coburn, who passed away on June 14, 2025; three brothers, Herman Cox, Jake Cox and Jesse Cox; and three sisters, Clara Cox Pate, Louise Tucker and Cora Lee Bracewell.
Mrs. Coburn attended Irwin County High School; and after marrying Mr. Coburn, she enjoyed being a homemaker for her husband and children. She was a faithful member of New River Baptist Church in Tifton.
Mrs. Coburn is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, James Newton II and Patricia Lynn Coburn of Wetumpka, Alabama and Glenn Alan and Barbara Jo Coburn of Tifton; two brothers and one sister-in-law, Henry Cox of Las Vegas, Nevada, Cecil and Nora Cox of Fitzgerald; one sister, Vernell Roberts of Suffolk, Virginia; three grandchildren, Jarod Coburn and his wife Breanna, Ashley Renae Wehunt and Christopher Coburn; and four great-grandchildren, Aiden Daniel Coburn, Evan Keaton Coburn, Connor Glen Coburn and Colton James Campbell.