West Union woman Rosa Cox remembered in countywide obituary

Rosa Cox’s life was mapped across Adams County in the places and people she left behind. The West Union woman died Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at Adams County Manor at age 80, and her obituary tied her story to Stout, Lynx, West Union and Blue Creek.

Born June 15, 1945, in Stout, Cox was the daughter of the late Willie and Dorthy Hubbard. Her family losses were part of that record as well: she was preceded in death by her son, Martin Wayne Hayslip, and by her brothers Bobby Hubbard and Berlin Hubbard. Those names place her in the county’s family lines as much as in its geography, linking one household to another across generations.

She is survived by her husband, Charles Cox of Lynx; her stepdaughter, Cindy Hanson of West Union; her sister, Cora Evans of Blue Creek; stepgrandson Chris Hanson and Lesley; two other step-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. For neighbors who know the county by road names and family ties, those details mark the circles of care that surrounded her life.

A funeral service was held Monday, June 15, 2026, at noon at Thompson-Meeker Funeral Home, 216 W. Mulberry Street in West Union. Burial followed in East Liberty Cemetery on Tulip Road in Lynx. The cemetery sits in Brush Creek Township and is also known as Liberty Cemetery; it is listed as cemetery No. 11 in the Ohio Genealogical Society’s Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003.

Thompson-Meeker Funeral Home serves Russellville and the surrounding communities with funeral services, cremation and pre-planning. In Cox’s case, its obituary page preserved the local map of her life with unusual clarity: born in Stout, connected to Lynx and Blue Creek through family, cared for at Adams County Manor, and laid to rest back in the county ground where so many Adams County stories are carried forward.