Obituaries

After retiring, he moved to Midlothian from Potomac and volunteered at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond.

His hobbies included tennis and golf.

Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Melba Kleinberger Brodie of Midlothian; two children, Helayne G. Sweet of Oakton and George H. Brodie of Burke; and four grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Thomas Earle Cox IIICorporate Executive

Thomas Earle Cox III, 66, who was a chief of contracts and procurement at the Military District of Washington before joining an international contract furniture company in Tennessee, died of cardiac arrest May 28 at Bay Medical Center in Panama City Beach, Fla., his town of residence. He formerly lived in Arlington County and Vienna.

Mr. Cox held several management positions in the Military District of Washington from 1968 to 1982, when he left the Washington area to become an executive with Shelby Williams in Morristown, Tenn. He transferred to Atlanta to lead international and East Coast sales for the company before retiring in 2003 and moving to Panama City Beach.

He was born in Atlanta into a military family and lived all over the world, including in Yokohama, Japan, and Trieste, Italy. He moved to Northern Virginia in sixth grade and graduated in 1960 from Washington-Lee High School, where he was a member of the Schoolboy and Stotesbury Cup award-winning crew teams.

He attended East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., where he was an Air Force ROTC cadet and assistant swim team coach.

Mr. Cox, who had an adventurous personality, loved to see new places and meet people, said his identical twin brother, Norman J. Cox of Arlington.

In addition to his brother, survivors include his wife of 44 years, Corinne Godsey Cox of Panama City Beach; three daughters, Corinne Kirby of Knoxville, Tenn., Erinn Siemer of Tampa and Heather Cox of Panama City Beach; three sisters, Gayle Webster of Port Angeles, Wash., Beverly Rogers of Tampa and Dianne Featherston of San Francisco; and four grandchildren.