Eileen P. Cox, 86, of Mount Dora, FL passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2013.

Eileen was the daughter of George E. McGuire and Katharine F. Duryea McGuire. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, July 3, 1926 and spent her childhood in Lewiston, New York where she attended Stella Niagara Seminary graduating in 1944. She attended the College of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, New Jersey for two years and Niagara University where she received a B.S degree and membership in the university scholastic honor society. She continued her education at the University of Buffalo with an Ed. M in Deaf Education. She taught hearing impaired children in the oral method in Baltimore, MD and the Rochester School for the Deaf. Her varied teaching career involved the gifted at the elementary level, teacher education at the State University of New York at Oswego, Middle School English and team teaching in the "Open Classroom" in Pittsford, New York for many years.

Due to the transfer of her husband by Stromberg Carlson to Florida in 1978 Eileen Cox returned to her early teaching career and was instrumental in helping develop an oral listening/speaking program for hearing impaired children at Winter Park Hospital. She kept in touch with many of her students over the years attending graduations, weddings and regrettably, some funerals.

In 1982 she and her husband moved to Chestertown, MD and where once again, she was involved in education and community volunteering. She taught for ten years in the Kent County Adult Literacy Program, Co-President of the Kent County League of Women Voters, President of Kent County Cancer Foundation, coordinator of volunteers for Kent Hospice and an active participant in Relay for Life. They returned to Florida in 2002 to locate near their daughter and grandchildren and resided in Waterman Village in Mount Dora. She was a member of St Patrick Catholic Church and was predeceased by her sister, Kathleen McGuire Woods and brother Fielding A. McGuire. She is survived by her beloved husband, Basil, daughter Deborah and grandsons Christopher and Timothy and a world wide network of dear friends. Burial will be private with internment at Monticello Memory Gardens, Charlottesville, Virginia.