Monroe Evening News
Monroe MI
5/25/98
Hazel V. Cosby
Aug. 18, 1915-May 23, 1998
Hazel V. Cosby, 82, of Monroe died at 4:45 p.m. Saturday
in Beach Nursing Home. She had been in poor health for a
year and seriously ill for the last 10 days.
Friends may call from 6 to 9 tonight and from 2 to 9 p.m.
Tuesday at the Rupp Funeral Home, where funeral services
will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Damon Patterson
of Monroe Missionary Baptist Church will officiate. Burial
will be in Roselawn Memorial Park, LaSalle.
Born Aug. 18, 1915 in Bluefield, W.Va., she was the
daughter of Alden and Virginia (Jessee) Kelly. She married
Roy Cosby on July 11, 1930, in Claiborne County, Tenn.
He died Dec. 7, 1995.
A homemaker, she came to Monroe in 1938 and was a
member of Monroe Missionary Baptist Church.
Surviving are a son, Roy L. of Monroe; two daughters,
Mildred Bert and Mrs. James (Lorean) Ellison, both of
Monroe; two brothers, Lawrence of Dandridge, Tenn., and
Clayton of Castalia, Ohio; a sister, Geneva Shoffner of
Monroe; four grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and
three great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by four brothers, three sisters
and a grandson.
Memorials may be made to Monroe Missionary Baptist Church Building Fund.