Pat Cox

Pat Cox lives in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

His address is

 

Pat Cox

2333 20th Ave. North

Fort Dodge, IA 50501

 

His telephone number is (515) 576-0267.

 

Pat entered Buena Vista Univesity (then Buena Vista College) in the fall of 1955 and graduated in 1959 with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. In 1958 he married Darlene Krischel of Havelock.  Pat and Darlene have four children, Kimberly, Kevin, Kristin, and Kyle. Kimberly (Kim) is married to Scott Drzycimski and they have two boys and one girl. They live in Fort Dodge where Kim is the marketing director at the Iowa Heart Center in Fort Dodge.  Pat and Darlene's second child Kevin is single and is a correction officer at a local prison. Pat and Darlene's third child Kristin (Kris) is married to Chris Childers and they have one boy and one girl. They live in Des Moines where Kris is a business systems consultant for Wells Fargo.  Finally, Kyle the youngest child, is married to Stephanie, and Kyle is the chief operating officer at Heartland Plastics, a company specializing in plastic surgery.  Stephanie finished her M.D. and is now practicing at a clinic in Des Moines.  They have two sons.   After college Pat worked as chemist for Fort Dodge Laboratories for one and a half years. In February of 1961 he went to work for Farmers Elevator Service Company (FELCO) in Fort Dodge as the company's chief chemist starting a feed laboratory. He also held other positions such as quality assurance manager and quality assurance/regulatory compliance manager before finally retiring in 1996 with Land of Lakes. Pat said the most satisfying accomplishment he had in his career was starting the Total Quality Management process for FELCO which was adopted by the entire company. Pat recently retired and now pursues activities such as traveling with Darlene, keeping up with the kids and grandkids, hunting, fishing, getting away to their lake getaway in Minnesota, woodworking and most recently, acting as coordinator for their church's Prison Ministry.

 

        

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