Billy Wayne Cox , Sr . 76, of Greenwood, MS, died Thursday, August 29, 2019 at Greenwood Leflore Hospital. Services will be 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Calvary Baptist Church with visitation 1:30 p.m. until service time. Dr. Wayne Kimbrough and Bro. Benny Rigby will officiate. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery in North Carrollton, MS.

Mr. Cox was born July 7, 1943 in Black Hawk, MS, to Bennie Watson Cox and Wilna Daves Cox. He was a graduate of Vaiden High School. He worked for over 37 years with Interstate Brands Corporation. He was a Deacon of Calvary Baptist Church, volunteered at the Greenwood Food Pantry, and was a board member of the Odd Fellows Cemetery Association. He was preceded in death by his wife, Sara Long Cox, three brothers, and his parents.

Mr. Cox is survived by his two sons, Wayne Cox, Jr. and wife Denise of Carrollton, MS, and Shane Cox of Carrollton, MS; one brother, Ronald Cox of Black Hawk, MS; two sisters, Evelyn Winters of Indianola, MS, and Eunice Pittman of Greenwood, MS; three grandchildren, Shana Cox Blaylock and husband Cory of Kosciusko, MS, Ben Cox of Carrollton, MS, and Caleb Cox of Carrollton, MS; and two great-grandchildren, Ann Alyse Blaylock and Sara Taylor Blaylock.

Pallbearers will be Ben Cox, Caleb Cox, Gayland Cox, Paten McDaniel, Cory Blaylock, Terry Cox, and Chet Bond. Honorary pallbearers will be the Men's Sunday School Class at Calvary Baptist Church, and the staff of Golden Age Nursing Home and Greenwood Leflore Hospital.

Memorials may be made to the Greenwood Community Food Pantry, 2509 Browning Road, Greenwood, MS 38930.

Williams & Lord Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.