Marian Cannon Cox, a former Palisades resident and bank manager, died of a stroke in Sacramento on December 25. She was 87. Born June 3, 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri, Marian spent her youth in Philadelphia, St. Paul, Tampa, and Kansas City. She graduated from Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, on a full scholarship. She majored in business administration and was the only female in the graduating class to receive a B.S. degree in business administration. She was married to Duncan W. Cox on October 26, 1940 in Kansas City. Duncan and Marian lived in Pacific Palisades from 1947 to 1973, at the Point Dume Club of Malibu from 1973 to 2002, and finally in Sacramento. They were married for 65 years, until Duncan’s death last March 9. Marian opened the Pacific Palisades branch of Security First National Bank in 1948 and later worked for Scudder & Forde before ending her working life with Pepperdine University’s personnel department. While living in the Palisades and Malibu, she was president of the Soroptimist Club and was active in the Alpha Chi Omega sorority alumnae group, The Westsiders, The Point Dume Club Residents Association and the Malibu Seniors. She is survived by her son Craig (wife Carol); her daughter Cathee Folk (husband Dennis); and four grandchildren: C.J., Devin, Jennifer and Tyler. Marian donated her body for studies in medicine at UC Davis, to provide medical researchers with tools that help them to investigate new surgical and medical procedures, thereby directly helping patients and doctors in the present and future. After the donations have been studied, the remains will be cremated and the ashes scattered at sea off the coast of San Francisco. A memorial has been installed on the medical school’s campus at UC Davis to serve as a perpetual remembrance of those who made gifts of their bodies.
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