MATTOX, Albert Hall

West Valley View, Avondale, Arizona, Friday, August 29, 2014 Albert Hall Mattox, 85, of Fort Mohave and formerly of Buckeye died Aug. 18, 2014. Mr. Mattox was born Feb. 3, 1929, in Tuskahoma, Okla., to Pearl and Ramona Bowles Mattox. He moved to Arizona in the 1930s and his family worked as farmers. He played football and graduated from Litchfield High School. He attended Arizona State University and received his bachelor's degree at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. He enlisted in 1945 and served in the Marine Corps for two years. He was employed as a junior high school teacher and sports coach in southwestern Colorado. He worked in agriculture related business in Mohave and later taught in the Mohave Valley Elementary District. He lived in Baghdad, Iraq, planning and building irrigation systems for Iraqi farmers along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. He retired in 2010 at age 81. He received the Lifetime in Education Award and was inducted into the Colorado River Education Hall of Fame in 2013. He was preceded in death by one daughter, Cynthia. He is survived by his wife, Mary Alice Berkshire Mattox; three sons, Mickey Mattox of Milwaukee, Tem Mattox of Bakersfield, Calif., and Raymond Mattox of Ft. Bragg, N.C.; two brothers, Lenard Mattox of Franklin, Texas, and Paul Mattox of Richmond, Va.; and nine grandchildren. A visitation was held Aug. 22, and a funeral service was held Aug. 23. Memorials can be sent to Mohave Valley Junior High or the Youth Program at First Baptist Church Fort Mohave.