Nellie Cobb, 88

Published 12:16 pm Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Nellie Marie Hay Cobb, 88, of Winchester, passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by loving family members.

Nellie lived in many residences in the Central Kentucky area, throughout her married life with John, her surviving spouse of 71 1/2 years. She was a homemaker rearing five children with loving hands, a loving heart and discipline. She worked at Ben’s Department Store, Macy’s
Department Store, once her youngest was in school. She cherished family time, watching her sons in sports, her daughters in Girl Scouts. She was able to provide a meal for extended families in a quick minute. Nellie was also a Hospice volunteer for many years in Jessamine County.

Nellie was blessed with loving family and friends. She cherished everyone who visited or who she and John visited, near or far. She was a generous and loving Christian who was always helping others. She loved and celebrated every child, every grandchild, every great grandchild,
niece, nephew, etc. She was overjoyed and you could always see her love for everyone. She said she didn’t have favorites but we all secretly know she did. She was blessed with wit and spunk. She would laugh until she cried. She enjoyed many joyous times together with family and friends.

Survivors include her husband, John S. Cobb; son, Rodney (Ok Ju), Charlotte, NC; daughter-in-law, Harriet Evans Cobb, Collierville, TN; daughter, Marcella (Michael) LaGrange, Jeffersonville,
IN; son, J. Kevin Cobb (Beverly), Charlotte, NC; and, daughter, Ruth (Rick) Heil, Winchester, KY; 14 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Many of whom continually shared their grace throughout Nellie’s journey. She was preceded in death by her parents, Earlie Roger Hay and Virginia Hay Johns; her siblings, Elva Rea Fallis
Crider; Evangeline Bell and Roger Earlie Hay; her beloved son, Byron and a great granddaughter.

Special thanks to her caregivers, Tara Ware and Pam Baker. Additionally, we share special gratitude for the Hospice East family, Dr. Greiser, Nurses Tammi and Pam, CNA Tia and all staff who graciously took calls or answered questions. Each provided the greatest care through tenderness and compassion.

Services will be at 11:00AM, Monday, March 25, 2024, at Grace Baptist Church, 5990 Lexington Road, Winchester, Kentucky 40391 by Pastor Pat Finley. Burial will follow in Nicholasville, Kentucky, at the Maple Grove Cemetery. Her grandsons and sons-in-law will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be: Bernard and Lois Cobb; Eldon and Carole Cobb. Wilma and Paul Hamilton, W. Gerald and Donna Cobb, Donna Fallis, Mike Hay, Barbara, and Jesse Holbrook.

Visitation will be from 5:00-8:00PM, Sunday, March 24, 2024, at Grace Baptist Church.

In lieu of flowers memorials are suggested to Grace Baptist Church and/or Hospice East, 407 Shoppers Drive, Winchester, KY 40391.