Ninth Generation

18407. Ethel Veda Coffey was born on 8 November 1923 in Watauga Co., NC. Ethel died on 15 April 2003 at the age of 79 in Watauga Co., NC and was buried at Blowing Rock, Watauga Co., NC.^{36374,36375,36376}

Obituary, The Watauga Democrat, Apr. 18, 2003

Coffey, Ethel, V.

Mrs. Ethel Vada Coffey, 79, of Ransom Street, Blowing Rock, died Tuesday afternoon, April 15, 2003, at Watauga Medical Center.

She was born Nov. 8, 1923 in Watauga County, a daughter of Thomas and Alice Sanders Coffey.

Mrs. Coffey was a member of Blue Ridge Advent Christian Church and was a homemaker.

Survivors include three sons, Doug Coffey and wife, Ann, Dan Coffey and wife, Phyllis, and Dennis Coffey and wife, Sandra, all of Blowing Rock; three daughters, Emma "Snooks" Snell and husband, Don, of Baton Rouge, La., Alleine McLean and husband, Larry, of Matthews, and Betty Davis and husband, David, of Rock Hill, S.C.; eight grandchildren; one sister, Mary Lois McCroskey of Blowing Rock; and two brothers, Pete Coffey of Blowing Rock and Palmer Coffey of Salisbury.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilson Woodrow Coffey; an infant daughter, Rebecca Kay Coffey; three sisters, Opal Coffey, Edna Mae Rich and Nancy Pearson; and two brothers, Floyd Coffey and Clint Coffey.

Services were conducted Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Blue Ridge Advent Christian Church in Blowing Rock, officiated by the Rev. Gordon Noble, the Rev. Ronnie Jones and the Rev. Glenn David Luttrell. Burial followed in the Boone Fork Community Cemetery.

Austin & Barnes Funeral Home is serving the Coffey family.

Ethel Veda Coffey and Wilson Woodrow Coffey were married in 1941 in Mountain City, Johnson Co., TN. Wilson Woodrow Coffey, son of Samuel Monroe Coffey and Safari Josephine Dellinger, was born on 26 September 1916 in Avery Co., NC.³⁶³⁷⁰ Wilson died on 21 June 1994 at the age of 77 in Boone, Watauga Co., NC and was buried at Boone Fork Community Cemetery in Blowing Rock, Watauga Co., NC.^{36371,36372,36373}

Ethel Veda Coffey and Wilson Woodrow Coffey had the following children: