Mattie Murray

Mattie Jean Cox Murray, age 53, of 179 Vickers Road, Forest City, NC, died Friday, November 6, 2009 at her residence.
A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late, John Wesley Cox and Elizabeth Watts Cox. She had worked as a CNA for Greene's Nursing Center before becoming disabled. She enjoyed watching Gunsmoke and Bonanza and doing word search puzzles. She was of the Baptist Faith.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one sister, Johnnie Evon Bridges.
Survivors include her son, James Wilkerson, Jr. and his wife, Sandra, of Forest City; one brother, Garland Wesley Cox of Forest City; four sisters, Bettye Cox Gosey of Forest City, Katherine Mae Cox Payne and her husband, Robin, of Forest City, Brenda Cox Ledbetter and her husband, Scott, of Forest City and Shirley Cox Cook and her husband, Joe, of Morganton, NC.