Dr. Marcy Halterman-Cox

With her family by her side, Dr. Marcy Halterman-Cox went running into the arms of her savior, Jesus Christ on September 26, 2024. Born July 9, 1958 in Carbondale IL, she grew up on a farm with horses (and did some barrel racing). She was also active in athletics, cheerleading and track at Carbondale Community High School (Class of 76), and running the 400m and mile relay at Southern Illinois University. Marcy loved learning and collecting degrees – BA from SIU, a chiropractic degree at Logan University in St. Louis, Juris Doctorate from South Texas College of Law, MS in Public Health from Texas A&M School of Public Health and a BSN from Texas A&M Corpus Christi. She was one semester short of finishing a family nurse practitioner program when diagnosed with Stage IV colorectal cancer, which she lived with for 7 years.

It took awhile, but a hospice benefit brought her to the love of her life, Russell Cox, in 1998. They wasted no time having kids but still made time to enjoy traveling all over the world with them and extended family. She loved planning and going on ‘shot out of the cannon’ trips to Europe and South America with her extended family. Daughter Aine was the joy of her life, but she wanted a sister – which couldn’t happen biologically, so the family went to China to get Eva. She made the family complete.

Marcy was a chiropractor serving the community locally for almost forty years. She kept working after being diagnosed because ‘it’s just something like COPD or congestive heart failure’. Plus she loved her patients and felt chiropractic was more a calling than a career.

She is preceded by her mother and father, Anna and Dr. Harold Halterman (a chiropractor) and all of her aunts and uncles (except for two of them). She is survived by her husband, Russell; children, Aine Ortiz (spouse Nathaniel) and Eva of Bedford TX; her brother, Sheldon of Chicago IL; niece, Marissa (Matt) Ruesch of Charlotte, NC; aunt, Martha Halterman of Cambria, IL; uncle, Dr. Charles Halterman (a chiropractor) of Anna, IL and many other nephews, nieces, great nephews/nieces and treasured friends.

Marcy’s visitation will be on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 from 6pm – 8pm at Callaway-Jones Funeral and Cremation Center, 3001 S. College Avenue, Bryan. The celebration of life will be on Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 3pm at Grace Bible Church – Creekside Campus, 4601 Williams Creek Drive, College Station. Following the service there will a celebration of life party at the Courtyard Marriott in College Station. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to either the Dr. Harold and Anna Halterman Scholarship Endowment Fund at The SIU Foundation, 1235 Douglas Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901-4204, https://siuf.org/give/ , Radius International – a missionary training organization that Aine and Nathaniel are involved in http://secure.radiusinternational.org,. or Batay Ministries, PO Box 280, Uxbridge,MA 01569, http://bateyevangelism.com an organization founded by cousin, Ron Halterman to bring Christ to the poor of the Dominican Republic.

The Family would also like to thank Dr. Erin Fleener and the Cancer Clinic staff for all their compassionate care, and Dr. Anna Damian for her loving-kindness, and all the wonderful friends who reached out to Marcy during her long journey. Express condolences at www.CallawayJones.com.