Eighth Generation

11719. Harley Albert Coffey was born on 5 February 1887 in Kentucky. Harley died on 26 March 1966 at the age of 79 in Fort Bayard, Grant Co., NM and was buried at Crosbyton Cemetery in Crosbyton, Crosby Co., TX.³³⁵⁵¹

Obituary, Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Mar., 1966

CROSBYTON (Special) - Harvey Elbert Coffey, 79-year-old rancher and former Crosbyton resident, died at 11 a.m. Saturday in a rest home in Fort Bayard, N.M.
Born in Kentucky, Coffey came to Seymour in 1901 and moved to Crosby County in 1907. In 1932 he moved to the ranch near Silver City, N.M., where he has made his home.

Survivors are the wife, Dorothy; one daughter, Mrs. Mike Capitan, Los Angeles, Calif.; three brothers, Romey, Crosbyton; Hembree, Levelland, and Edgar, Lubbock; five sisters, Mrs. Flake Paschall, Clovis; Mrs. Asalee Reed and Mrs. O.B. Williams, both of Lubbock; Mrs. W.W. Heathington, Ralls, and Mrs. Mary Lee Chance, Crosbyton; and three grandchildren.

Services are pending at King Funeral Home of Crosbyton.

Harley Albert Coffey and Dorothy D. "Dot" Griffin were married in Crosbyton, Crosby Co., TX. Dorothy D. "Dot" Griffin, daughter of Adanija H. Griffin and Ida Mae Groseclose, was born on 18 October 1893 in Colorado. Dorothy died on 15 February 1995 at the age of 101 at San Gabriel Valley Community Hospital in San Gabriel, Los Angeles Co., CA and was buried at Crosbyton Cemetery in Crosbyton, Crosby Co., TX on 18 February 1995.

Obituary, Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Feb. 7, 1995

CROSBYTON (Special) - Graveside services for Dorothy G. Coffey, 101 of San Gabriel, Calif., will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Crosbyton Cemetery with the Rev. Les Griffin, pastor of Crosbyton´s First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be under direction of Adams Funeral Home.

She died Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1995, in the San Gabriel Valley Community Hospital.

She was born Oct. 18, 1893, in Hagen, Colo. She married Harley Albert Coffey in Crosbyton. He died March 26, 1966. She moved to San Gabriel in 1980.

She was a homemaker, and she was a recording secretary for the Farm Bureau of New Mexico. She had also worked on the election boards. A son, Kenneth died in 1941.

Survivors include a daughter, Ollie Myrtle Kapitan of San Gabriel; a brother, Lloyd Griffin of El Monte, Calif.; three grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

[Did she and sister Clara both name daughters Ollie Myrtle or, is this obituary in error?]