Surrounded by her family, the soul of Barbara J. Cox left this earth on August 5, 2025, after a courageous 12-year fight with Pulmonary Fibrosis and metastatic lung cancer. Originally given 30 days to live in 2013, Barbara proved her doctors wrong, gifting her loved ones with 12 more years of kindness, laughter, and love. Because she was such a fighter, her sudden passing came as both a shock and a deep wound to her family, friends, and countless others whose lives she touched during her 89 remarkable years.

Barbara was born in Urbana, Illinois, in 1936 , the eldest of five children. When she was a teenager, her family moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, where her parents owned and operated the Seahorse Restaurant. With her parents working long hours, Barbara naturally “mothered” her youn

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