Ninth Generation

18210. James Henry Rich was born on 14 July 1921 in Yadkin Valley, Caldwell Co., NC.⁴⁵¹⁰³ James died on 18 January 2000 at the age of 78 at Glenstone Health Care Center in Boone, Watauga Co., NC and was buried at Boone Fork Community Cemetery in Blowing Rock, Watauga Co., NC.^45104,45105

Obituary, The Blowing Rocket, Boone, Watauga Co., NC, Jan 25, 2000

Mr. Rich

Mr. James Henry Rich, age 79, of Glenstone Health Care in Boone and formerly of Blowing Rock, died Thursday morning, January 18th at his Glenstone residence.

Mr. Rich was born July 14, 1921 in Caldwell County, a son of the late Roby and Cenia Hatley Rich.

A veteran of the United States Army, Mr. Rich was retired from Thomasville Furniture Company after 26 years employment. He was a member of the Blue Ridge Advent Christian Church.

Mr. Rich is survived by two sons, James Leroy Coffey of Bremington, Washington and Russell Rich and wife, Mindy, of Boone; one daughter, Alice Brown and husband, Gary, of Boone; two grandchildren, Joseph and Crystal Brown, both of Boone; four brothers, Calvin and Leonard Rich, both of Blowing Rock, Jesse Rich of Hudson; and four sisters, Pearl Crandall of Lenoir, Jenny Eckard of Hickory, Jane Crisco of Landis and Elizabeth Rich.

Mr. Rich was preceded in death by his wife, Edna Mae Coffey Rich, three brothers, Herman Pearson, Spencer Franklin Rich and Earl Rich, and two sisters, Bertha Louise Trivette and Mary Francis Burns.

Funeral services for Mr. Rich were conducted Friday afternoon at the Austin & Barnes Funeral Home Chapel in Boone. Officiating was the Rev. Terry Carver. Interment followed in the Boone's Fork Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Glenstone Health Care Activities Fund, P.O. Box 2150, Boone, N.C., 28605.

Austin & Barnes Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.

[n.b. His headstone gives date of death as Jan. 18, 2001]

Sometimes this surname is found spelled Ritch.

James Henry Rich and Edna Mae Coffey were married on 14 February 1958 in Watauga Twp., Watauga Co., NC.⁴⁵¹⁰⁶ Edna Mae Coffey, daughter of Thomas Leroy Coffey and Alice Sanders, was born on 24 April 1931 in Watauga Co., NC.⁴⁵¹⁰⁷ Edna died of acute myocardial infarction with severe ischemia on 25 May 1994 at the age of 63 at Blowing Rock Hospital in Blowing Rock, Watauga Co., NC and was buried at Boone Fork Community Cemetery in Blowing Rock, Watauga Co., NC.^{45108,45109,45110,45111}

James Henry Rich and Edna Mae Coffey had the following children: