(06/21/39 - 08/30/1976)

    Funeral service for Ronald Lee Cozad, 37, of Route 5,  Moss Hollow Road will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Ware Funeral Home.  The Rev. David Cyrus will officiate, and burial will follow in Greenlawn Cemetery.

    Friends may call at the funeral home after  5 p.m. today.

    Mr. Cozad, a Mead Corporation employee, was killed in a motorcycle accident Monday night.

    A native Ross Countian, he was born June 21, 1939 to Charles E. and Ditha Acord Cozad who live in Fort Myers, Florida.

    On August 21, 1965 he was married to the former Barbara Lee Drais who survives.

    Also surviving are two children, Sandra Lee and Carl Leroy at home; his grandmothers, Mrs. Miza Acord, Frankfort and Mrs. Effie Cozad, Route 4; three sisters, Mrs. Robert (Anna Marie) Demint, Route 7, Mrs. Richard (Connie Sue) Basye, Route 11, and Mrs. Don (Bonnie Lou) Collins, Route 2 - McArthur; and a brother, Donald of Boynton Beach, Florida.  He was predeceased by two brothers.

    [Obituary was originally published on September 1, 1976 in the Chillicothe Gazette.]