Crystal Leigh Hunt Cox

Oak Ridge - Crystal Leigh Hunt Cox, 45, joined heaven's angels on January 12, 2017 after a year-long, brave and courageous battle with breast cancer. Crystal was a loving wife and a devoted, caring mother. She graduated from Stetson University with a Bachelors in Education and received a Masters from Indiana University. She enjoyed her career as a counselor at Northwest Guilford Middle School and loved working in her flower gardens, especially her roses.

She was preceded in death by grandparents, Charlie S. and Myrtle Hunt of Fall Branch, TN, Robert and Ruby Gibbons of Church Hill, TN, and Uncle Aubrey Flick.

Surviving are her husband, Craig Cox; daughter, Jessica Cox; son, Zachary Cox, all of Oak Ridge; parents, Charlie and Betty Jo Hunt; brother, Mark A. Hunt and wife, Brooke; niece, Ava Hunt; nephew, Keller Bolling; mother-in-law, Marlene Crouch, all of Kingsport, TN; uncle, Ed Gibbons and wife, Theresa; aunts, Jerri Flick of Johnson City, TN, and Carolyn Gibbons of Church Hill, TN; and cousins, Mitzi Smith and husband, Cliff, Josh Gibbons and wife, Lisa, and Alison Waskiewicz and husband, Joe.

The funeral service was held in Kernersville, NC on Sunday, January 15, 2017.

The family will receive friends on Saturday, January 21, 2017 from 11-12:00 pm at Double Springs Baptist Church in Kingsport, TN. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.