Alyce Lee Cox, an almost, life long resident of Dona Ana County died on May 31,2006. She was 94 years old. Alyce Lee moved to the Mesilla Valley as a small child in 1920 with her parents, brothers and sisters from a dry-land cotton farm in Mississippi so that her father, L.L. Mayfield could till the soils and grow cotton in this fertile valley. As a late teenager, two pioneer families of Southern New Mexico merged, when Alyce Lee married Hal Cox, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Cox. Hal and Alyce Lee ranched on the east slopes of the Organ Mountains until the late 1940's then continued in the cattle business on a beautiful ranch south of Hillsborough. They retired from ranching in the early 1960's and moved to Las Cruces. Hal preceded Alyce Lee in death, as did her parents L.L. and Charity Mayfield, and eight of her nine brothers and sisters. She is survived by a sister Lavern Guice of Shorewood, Wisconsin and numerous nephews and nieces.
Alyce Lee taught school at Organ during the depression and Hal worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps to help hold the ranch together during those most difficult years of hard-times and drought. The weather and cattle prices changed starting in the late 1930's and their ranch prospered until shortly after WWII when the government acquired hundreds of sections of land to form what is now WSMR. After Hal's death, Alyce Lee was very active in the NM Cattle Growers Association effort to obtain, from the U. S. Government, fair compensation for the many families whose ranches were taken during the formation of WSMR. She, along with others, worked tirelessly on this mission, including two appearances before congressional committees but to no avail.
Alyce Lee will be remembered for her loving personality, her kindness, her generosity, and for her love and devotion to her one and only, Hal Cox.
Alyce Lee taught school at Organ during the depression and Hal worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps to help hold the ranch together during those most difficult years of hard-times and drought. The weather and cattle prices changed starting in the late 1930's and their ranch prospered until shortly after WWII when the government acquired hundreds of sections of land to form what is now WSMR. After Hal's death, Alyce Lee was very active in the NM Cattle Growers Association effort to obtain, from the U. S. Government, fair compensation for the many families whose ranches were taken during the formation of WSMR. She, along with others, worked tirelessly on this mission, including two appearances before congressional committees but to no avail.
Alyce Lee will be remembered for her loving personality, her kindness, her generosity, and for her love and devotion to her one and only, Hal Cox.
Alyce Lee Cox, an almost, life long resident of Dona Ana County died on May 31,2006. She was 94 years old. Alyce Lee moved to the Mesilla Valley as a small child in 1920 with her parents, brothers and sisters from a dry-land cotton farm in Mississippi so that her father, L.L. Mayfield could till the soils and grow cotton in this fertile valley. As a late teenager, two pioneer families of Southern New Mexico merged, when Alyce Lee married Hal Cox, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Cox. Hal and Alyce Lee ranched on the east slopes of the Organ Mountains until the late 1940's then continued in the cattle business on a beautiful ranch south of Hillsborough. They retired from ranching in the early 1960's and moved to Las Cruces. Hal preceded Alyce Lee in death, as did her parents L.L. and Charity Mayfield, and eight of her nine brothers and sisters. She is survived by a sister Lavern Guice of Shorewood, Wisconsin and numerous nephews and nieces.
Alyce Lee taught school at Organ during the depression and Hal worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps to help hold the ranch together during those most difficult years of hard-times and drought. The weather and cattle prices changed starting in the late 1930's and their ranch prospered until shortly after WWII when the government acquired hundreds of sections of land to form what is now WSMR. After Hal's death, Alyce Lee was very active in the NM Cattle Growers Association effort to obtain, from the U. S. Government, fair compensation for the many families whose ranches were taken during the formation of WSMR. She, along with others, worked tirelessly on this mission, including two appearances before congressional committees but to no avail.
Alyce Lee will be remembered for her loving personality, her kindness, her generosity, and for her love and devotion to her one and only, Hal Cox.
Alyce Lee taught school at Organ during the depression and Hal worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps to help hold the ranch together during those most difficult years of hard-times and drought. The weather and cattle prices changed starting in the late 1930's and their ranch prospered until shortly after WWII when the government acquired hundreds of sections of land to form what is now WSMR. After Hal's death, Alyce Lee was very active in the NM Cattle Growers Association effort to obtain, from the U. S. Government, fair compensation for the many families whose ranches were taken during the formation of WSMR. She, along with others, worked tirelessly on this mission, including two appearances before congressional committees but to no avail.
Alyce Lee will be remembered for her loving personality, her kindness, her generosity, and for her love and devotion to her one and only, Hal Cox.
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