Jerome Peron Cobb

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Graveside service was held Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at Riverside National Cemetery. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary.

JEROME PERON COBB was born April 26, 1937, in Cordele, Georgia to the late T. J. Cobb and Lydia Laidler Cobb. He was raised in Cordele and spent most of his adult life in California.

Jerome enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1955. He retired from his Navy career as a Chief Petty Officer in 1975 and transitioned to the Civilian Federal Service as a Boiler Plant Operator for another 20+ years.  He was an avid lover of automobiles, enjoyed watching sports and westerns, and he regularly “showed up” at a family member’s door for a short visit.

He will be lovingly remembered as a caring and giving father, brother, uncle, friend, and man of God. He embraced his call as a deacon, where he served faithfully for 40 years at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in San Bernardino, CA until he moved to San Diego and united with Mesa View Baptist Church.

Jerome was preceded in death by his loving wife, Della Allen-Cobb whom he loved and cared for until her death in May 2015; seven of the “Cobb Clan of Twelve”: John Cobb, Frank Laidler, Alfred Cobb, Susie Cobb Ashton, Minnie Cobb, Thomas Cobb Jr., and Mable Cobb Trotter.

On Monday, August 3, 2020, Jerome Peron Cobb transitioned from this life to eternal rest. He will be cherished and remembered by his four loving children: Peter Jerome Cobb, Reginald Ricardo Cobb (Evelyn), David Eugene Keith Cobb (Fredda), and Angela Renee Cobb-Danielly (Thomas); his former wife, Frances M. Gray; God-fearing sisters: Bertha Cobb Everett, Mary Pearl Cobb Cuspard, Diane Cobb Jacob, and LaJoyce Cobb Woolery (Randy); two devoted sisters-in-law Charlie Belle Cobb and Susie Laidler; eleven grandchildren: Antoine Cobb Sr., David Cobb Jr. (Karissa), Francis Cobb, Damien Danielly (Latoya), Katrina Danielly, Ohn Decker, Plyethell Decker, Charles Kyler, Demetrius Walker, Exzavior Walker and Chantel Menendez (Jerry); seventeen great-grandchildren: Antoine Cobb Jr., Aniyah Cobb, Amara Cobb, Saryah Cobb, Jeremiah Cobb, Masiyah Cobb, Isaiah Danielly, Harper Danielly, Ayanna Sosan (Henry), Charissa Charles, Daniel Laird, Isaiah Edwards, Anisa Melendez, Ava Melendez, Zara Malendez, Alexia Melendez and Velondra Melendez and a host of  nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.