Audrey Joanne Bensle Cox, 52, of Ocilla, died Saturday, January 6, 2007, at Tift Regional Medical Center. Graveside funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 9, 2007, in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Rev. John Hughes will officiate with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Robert Fields, Edward Bensle, Eddie Black, Zachary Higgins, Robbie Pritchard and Adam Davis will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Luther Dukes and Jose Rotiz. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, January 9, 2007, at Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals from 12:00 noon until the hour of the service.
Ms. Cox was born on June 28, 1953 in New York and was the daughter of Herbert Bensle, deceased, and Audrey Ballard Fields of Jacksonville, Florida. She was a machine operator at Taylor Made in Tifton.
Ms. Cox is survived by her husband, John Parick Cox of Ocilla; two sons, Richard P. Chabotte of Moultrie and Roy Herbert Chabotte of Texas; two daughters and one son-in-law, Jennifer Higgins of Ocilla and Audrey Jean and Eddie Black of Irwinville; two brothers, Edward Bensle of Jacksonville, Florida and Robert Bensle of Jacksonville, Florida; two sisters, Sandra Bensle of Jacksonville, Florida and Denise Aiken of Jacksonville, Florida; nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren.