Seventh Generation

5572. Clifton Thomas "Click" Coffey was born on 6 December 1909 in Lawrence Co., AL. Clifton died in Decatur, Morgan Co., AL on 2 February 1995 and was buried at Roselawn Gardens of Memory in Decatur, Morgan Co., AL on 4 February 1995 .¹⁷⁹⁷⁸

Obituary, The Decatur Daily, Feb. 3, 1995

Graveside service for Clifton Thomas Coffey, 85, of Decatur will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Roselawn Cemetery with the Rev. Brooks Barkley and the Rev. Wayne Baggett officiating and Brown Service Funeral Home directing.

The family will receive friends tonight from 6 to 8 at the funeral home.

Mr. Coffey died Thursday at Decatur General Hospital of pneumonia and a stroke. He was born December 6, 1909 in Lawrence County. He was a member of Masonic Lodge No. 29, Southside Baptist Church and taught the men's Sunday school class. He worked in the grocery business for 60 years, most recently managing Morningside Shop-Ezy on 11th Street Southeast.

He is survived by his wife, Sadie T. Coffey; two sons, Thomas Marlin Coffey of Birmingham and Bobby Martin Coffey of Kansas; one daughter, Kay Terry of Decatur; two brothers, Carl Coffey of Courtland and Cecil Coffey of Decatur; one sister, Norean Roden of Moulton; five grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Snooky Hairrell, Robert Slink, Dwight D. Coffey, Willard D. Coffey, M. A. Coffey and David Parks.

Honorary pallbearers will be the Snooky Hairrell Sunday school class.

Clifton Thomas "Click" Coffey and Sadie Mae Thompson were married on 5 September 1936 in Lawrence Co., AL.¹⁷⁹⁷⁹ Sadie Mae Thompson, daughter of Left Thompson and Ida Holland, was born on 30 January 1920 in Lawrence Co., AL. Sadie died in Decatur, Morgan Co., AL on 20 October 2005 and was buried at Roselawn Gardens of Memory in Decatur, Morgan Co., AL in October 2005 .¹⁷⁹⁸⁰

Born to Left Thompson and Ida Holland Thompson. She worked at Decatur High School lunchroom and Morningside Shop-Ezy. She was a member of Southside Baptist Church for 52 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, C.T. “Click” Coffey; and one son, Dwight Coffey. 

Survivors include one daughter, Kay Terry and her husband, Charles, of Decatur; two sons, Marlin “Bud” Coffey and his wife, Anita, of Decatur, and Bobby Coffey and his wife, Doris Baker, of Illinois; two brothers, Gene Thompson and his wife, Billie, of Albertville, and Marvin Thompson and his wife, Juanita, of Kalamazoo, Mich.; five grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. 

Pallbearers will be grandchildren and the deacons of Southside Baptist Church.

Clifton Thomas "Click" Coffey and Sadie Mae Thompson had the following children: