Eighth Generation

12450. Rose Lee Coffey was born on 23 July 1920 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC. Rose died on 6 January 1988 at the age of 67 at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, Caldwell Co., NC and was buried at Mountain View Baptist Church Cemetery in Lenoir, Caldwell Co., NC on 8 January 1988.³⁶⁴⁴⁰

Obituary, unknown newspaper, undated

Mrs. Rosie Lee Gragg

Mrs. Rosie Lee Coffey Gragg, age 68, of Lenoir, a former resident of Watauga County, widow of Milburn Gragg, died Friday morning, January 6, at Caldwell Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Gragg was born July 23, 1920 in Caldwell County, a daughter of the late Columbus Alexander and Mary Alice Woodruff Coffey. She was retired from Harper Furniture Company in Lenoir and was a member of the Mount View Baptist Church.

Survivors include three brothers, Levi Coffey of Blowing Rock and Jack Coffey and Arvil Coffey, both of Lenoir.

Services for Mrs. Gragg were conducted on Sunday, January 8, at Pendry's Funeral Home Chapel in Lenoir. Officiating were the Rev. A. J. Singley and the Rev. Ray Lambertson. Interment was in the Mount View Baptist Church Cemetery in Lenoir.

Pendry's Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

Rose Lee Coffey and Milburn Brownlow Gragg were married on 12 September 1944 in Caldwell Co., NC.^36441,36442 Milburn Brownlow Gragg³⁶⁴⁴³, son of Larkin Henderson Gragg and Lee Ella Gragg, was born on 27 September 1907 in Lenoir, Caldwell Co., NC.³⁶⁴⁴⁴ He lived with his parents in Wilson Creek Twp., Caldwell Co., NC on 16 April 1910. He lived with his parents in Wilson Creek Twp., Caldwell Co., NC on 14 January 1920. Milburn lived with his parents in Pineola, Wilsons Creek Twp., Avery Co., NC on 13 June 1940. Milburn enlisted in the on 17 April 1942 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.³⁶⁴⁴⁵ Milburn died of colon cancer on 16 March 1970 at the age of 62 in Lenoir, Caldwell Co., NC and was buried at Mountain View Baptist Church Cemetery in Lenoir, Caldwell Co., NC.^{36446,36447,36448,36449}