Gary Alan Cox, age 75, passed away on October 10th, 2024 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He was born on March 3rd, 1949 to Jasper “Junior” and Jewell Franklin Cox at the family home in Iron Post, Oklahoma.

Chowing down in Vegas

Gary was in a very select gold club with Roman, Saxon, Celtic and milled gold coins finds

Ark Gary was one our first members of the club over 20 years ago and held the club gold coin count until ill health made him hang up his detector. One of his mint Celtic gold coins he found became the club logo.He continued to be a very supportive Senior member on the Members forum and I talked to him regularly on the phone. He would always come and visit me my Mrs when we went to Las Vegas with his Mrs. We spent many a fun day out in Vegas with a big Yank muscle car.

Recently ill heath has forced into hospital and a care home and I continued to ring him regularly and tried to keep him upbeat.

His sister has just let us know he passed away peacefully on the 10th Oct, end of a club legend.

His nice obituary has been posted here.

Cal Gail finds her first Celtic gold.

Gail was a very long term senior member and found some grreat finds over the years with Celtic and milled gold. She was a 'mad old badger' and a real fun character and well known in the club.

Just got an email from California Gail's daughter-in-law, with the sad news that Gail Meyer passed away on July 24th 2024, at home. Gail was an early member of our club, and even when she battled illnesses (cancer, pneumonia multiple times, etc) and injuries (sprained her knee while getting onto the plane for London), she still managed to push through the pain and exhaustion to come over the pond. Her last trip was a tough one. She was on oxygen 24/7 and dragged a portable tank around the field during the very few times she actually came out to hunt. Her last few stays were more about being part of a group of friends, and less about digging holes. I think Gail cheated death more than a few times during the last ten years or so. She was a "character" for sure, to the point that Chris even presented her with a special award: The Mad Badger award. For...I honestly can't recall exactly what it was that earned her this title, but I'm guessing it was a cumulative thing. My sense was that she was more flattered than annoyed by this award. She enjoyed the teasing she got from Chris, and was pretty good at dishing it back. She will be missed.

Mindy

Very sad news that Tx Ali lost his life in a traffic accident in 2022, great hunter that will be sorely missed.

Sad news that an old member Texas Jim lost his battle with cancer and has passed away recently. Great hunter who will be sadly missed