James William McCoy Jr.'s Obituary
MCCOY,JR., JAMES WILLIAM 43, died on July 10. He graduated from Mesquite High School where he played football and was a member of the National Honor Society and University of Texas at Arlington with a BS in Information Systems. He met his husband, Paul Cross, on Sept. 27, 2002 and they were married in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2008, making theirs one of the California marriages that remained legal after Proposition 8. He worked at AXIOM Systems as a healthcare IT consultant. McCoy was a member of Cheer Dallas, participated in PSSA softball as a player and coach and rode with team Slow Spokes in the Lone Star Ride. Since 2001, he went to Camp Willowswish every year. McCoy loved country and western dancing at the Round-Up, Christmas and Halloween parties, group trips to Screams, birthdays parties with family and friends as well as hosting outdoor movie nights at the pool at their home in Northwest Dallas and hanging out with friends at Two Corks and a Bottle. McCoy was a fun and loyal person and made many friends over the years, which was obvious by the number of people gathered around him in the hospital. He is survived by his husband Paul Cross, mother Cynthia McCoy, father and stepmother James W. and Jana McCoy, sister and brother-in-law Jeana McCoy Enochs and Edgar Hill Enochs III, nieces and nephews Brittany Caviness and Jordan and Emma Enochs, parents-in-law Sam and Laurie Batt and his many aunts, uncles, close friends and relatives across the country. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to YouCaring.com to help pay medical and funeral expenses. Money collected over the goal will be split between the Pancreatic Cancer Network and the Lone Star Ride. A viewing will take place on Thursday, July 12 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Restland Funeral Home and Cemetery. The funeral will take place at Cathedral of Hope, 5910 Cedar Springs Road, on Friday, July 13 at 10 a.m. followed by burial at Restland Cemetery, 13005 Greenville Ave.
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