HIGH POINT – Barclay “Barkey” Allison Cox, 80, died Sunday, September 1, 2024, at High Point Medical Center.

She was born on July 2, 1944 in Wilson, North Carolina, the daughter of the late John Craig Allison and Rose Pettus Kimball Allison and grew up in Wytheville, Virginia. She attended George Wythe High School, where she was named Homecoming Queen her senior year, and later attended Roanoke Business College. Barkey retired from Dixon Hughes Goodman LPP in High Point, where she worked for twenty-one years as a receptionist and administrative assistant. She made everyone feel welcome and was loved by everyone who came to the office and by her coworkers. She enjoyed being around others, hanging out with friends and family, and had an uncanny ability to make everyone feel loved. Barkey had an uncanny ability to always put a smile on someone’s face. She loved to dance and spent her younger years in a bowling league.

In addition to her parents, Barkey was preceded in death by her loving husband of forty-two years, James “Jim” Franklin Cox; brother, John Craig Allison, Jr.; and sister-in-law, Sue Allison.

She is survived by her two loving daughters, Emily Cox Deal and her husband Brian of Watkinsville, Georgia, and Kimball “Kim” Cox Anderson and her husband Tom of Fort Mill, South Carolina; four loving grandchildren, Ginny Deal Hardy and her husband Evan of Ball Ground, Georgia, Robert Deal of Watkinsville, Georgia, Nicole Anderson and Mitchell Anderson, both of Fort Mill, South Carolina; and her loving nephew, John Craig “Jay” Allison IV and her wife Tina of Wytheville, Virginia.

The family will receive friends at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 7, 2024 at the First United Methodist Church in Pulaski, Virginia (301 Jefferson Avenue North). A memorial service celebrating Barkey’s life will follow at 12:00 p.m. at the church with the Reverend Dr. Josh Kilbourne officiating.

A celebration of life reception will be held following the service on Saturday at 2:00 PM at The Draper Mercantile (3054 Greenbriar Road, Draper, Virginia 24324).

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the First United Methodist Church, 301 Jefferson Avenue N, Pulaski, VA 24301; or to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, 230 East Ohio Street, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60611.

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