Pagan, Mrs Annie Cox 
(Minden Press-Herald Jan. 7, 2002 Minden, LA) 

Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Cox Pagan, 89, will be held 
at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2002, at Minden Presbyterian Church 
with the Rev. Don Brown officiating. Graveside services will 
follow at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday at Mullhearn Memorial Park Cemetery 
in Monroe under the direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home in 
Minden. Visitation will be held from 5 until 10 p.m. today, Jan. 
7, at the funeral home. 

Mrs. Pagan, a native of Pritchett, Upshur County, Texas, and a 
resident of Minden, passed away Saturday, Jan. 5, in Shreveport 
after a short illness. 

She was the oldest active member of Minden Presbyterian Church. 
Everyone knew her as Miss Annie or Granny. She loved her 
grandchildren very much. She was also a retired nurse with 35 
years of service and was a graduate of St. Francis Sanitarium 
School of Nursing in 1932, working in the Morehouse General 

Hospital in Bastrop. She was a nursing supervisor and retired as 
industrial nurse with International Paper Co. in 1976. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Pagan, on Feb. 24, 
1987; parents, Harmon A. and Martha Compton Cox; brother, Claude 
Cox; and sisters, Clydia Coats and Cloy Dell Thompson. 

She is survived by a son, Perry Harmon Pagan and wife Sylvia of 
Quitman; daughters, Mary Jane Dillard of Baton Rouge and Adelia P. 
Gardner and husband James of Minden; sister, Geneva Garnet of 
Leesville; grandchildren, Becky Johnson and husband Johnny; Darren 
Gardner and wife Theresa, all of Minden, Amy Manco and husband Paul 
of Bossier City, Jim Dillard of West Monroe, Nikki D. Smith and 
husband Mike of McKinney, Texas, Perry Wayne Pagan and wife Cindy 
of Bossier City; 10 great-grandchildren; one nephew and several 
nieces. 

Pallbearers will be Irby Perkins, Russ Perkins, Jim Hancock, Curtis 
Belton, Raul Tullos, and Travis Tullos. Honorary pallbearers will be 
the elders of Minden Presbyterian Church.