Vicksburg woman killed in La. wreck

Published 12:00 am Monday, July 28, 2003

[7/28/03]A Vicksburg woman died shortly before noon Sunday in a one-car wreck on a state highway near Mound, Louisiana State Police said.

Deborah Kay Cox, 39, 115 Chapel Hills Drive, was driving west on Louisiana 602 to pick up her daughter in Tallulah, said her mother, Billie Jean Sinclair of Cotton Valley, La.

The car she was driving, a 1999 Daewoo, failed to negotiate a curve about two miles south of Mound, Trooper Bobby Brinkerhoff of the Louisiana State Police said. The car went airborne after striking a ditch embankment of a private drive south of the highway about 11:45 a.m., and Cox, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected, he said.

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Cox was pronounced dead at the scene, Brinkerhoff said.

She was preceded in death by one son, Dakota Cox, who died at age 9 about two years ago, Sinclair said.

In addition to her mother, she is survived by her stepfather, Carl W. Sinclair; her father, Charles Lamar Posey; one daughter, Heather Posey of Cotton Valley; one brother, Steven Lamar Posey of Shreveport; and one step-brother, David Matthews of Minden.

She was engaged to be married to Richard Embry of Vicksburg. Her mother said she had lived in Louisiana and Mississippi, residing in Vicksburg at times for about the past three years.

Cox grew up and went to school in Cotton Valley, Sinclair said. Arrangements were incomplete this morning, but a funeral will be later this week at the Church of Christ in Cotton Valley with burial to follow in the Cotton Valley Cemetery, Sinclair said.

Heavenly Gates Funeral Home of Shreveport has charge of arrangements.