LUDLOW FALLS - Joanne Cox Iddings, 78, of Ludlow Falls, passed away Saturday, March 31, 2007, at Koester Pavilion, Troy.

She is survived by her husband, Ned Lowell Iddings; sons and daughters-in-law, Steven Ned and Tara Mar Iddings of Suva, Fiji, Brian Cox and Michelle Denlinger Iddings of Troy; daughter and son-in-law, Karen and Matt Foster of Tampa, Fla.; and grandchildren, James Foster, Sarah Foster and Brittany Iddings.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Edwin E. and Esther (Spitler) Cox.

She was a 1946 graduate of Milton-Union High School and Dayton School of Business, was active in the alumni and spent 56 years as a farm wife.

She was a Troy Historical Society volunteer in the Research Library, a free-lance writer, an active and loyal member of Center Friends Church and a member of West Milton Grandmother's Club. She spent 30 years as an independent genealogist for the Iddings family research and co author of two family history books.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Center Friends Church, West Milton, with Pastor Steve Sims officiating. Burial will follow at Old Union Cemetery.

Friends may call on from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday the Hale-Sarver Funeral Home, West Milton.

If so desired, contributions may be given to the American Lung Association.