Wanda Mae Hobbs Cox was born on August 4, 1934, to James and Maude Hobbs in Mayfield, Kansas. She was the only girl with three older brothers and one younger brother: Junior, Bill, Don, and Richard "Dick" Hobbs.

On January 25, 1951, Wanda married Joe Cox at the court house in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. Joe had to borrow $20 from Lamoine Woodson to marry his bride, and many said it wouldn't last a month. The couple was just three weeks shy of their 70th wedding anniversary.

Wanda was a homemaker for many years raising their family of three boys: Bob, Jim, and Bill and one daughter, Cindra. Once th...