Worked With Husband Jack Sportsman Pilot Magazine

ANN has learned that Golda Cox, the wife of the late Jack Cox who was well known in the aviation publishing world, passed away June 16, 2017 at Universal Health Care of Ramseur in Asheboro, North Carolina.

According to an obituary posted on the Pugh Funeral Home website, Golda worked alongside Jack for 30 years at the EAA in Oshkosh before returning home to Asheboro, where she was born, in 1999.

While Jack was an editor for EAA's Sport Aviation Magazine, he and Golda started Sportsman Pilot magazine in 1981. The magazine quickly caught on with aircraft restorers and homebuilders. With his own, focused publication, Cox was able to delve more deeply into the various historic and technical aspects of aircraft construction, restoration, and aviation history. Each issue was packed with details unavailable anywhere else, and the material was rounded out with content on air races, fly-ins, book reviews, and personal profiles.

Cox continued to publish Sportsman Pilot after retiring from EAA in 1999 until he passed away in 2011. Back issues of the publication continue to be available for many issues, but many are also out of print. Recently Golda granted permission for issues that are out of print to be digitized and made available publicly online.

Funeral arrangements are pending. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Hospice of Randolph, P.O. Box 9, Asheboro, NC 27204-0009.

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