Ninth Generation

14458. Eldon Francis Coffee was born on 22 December 1915 in Miami, Roberts Co., TX. Eldon was a WWII veteran having served with the US Navy. Eldon died on 22 May 2001 at the age of 85 in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX and was buried at Llano Cemetery in Amarillo, Randall Co., TX.³⁹⁷⁹⁶

Amarillo Globe-News, May 25, 2001

Eldon F. Coffee

Eldon F. Coffee, 85, or Amarillo, died Tuesday, May 22, 2001.

Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. today in First Christian Church with the Rev. Marvin James, minister of family live, and Dr. John Birdwell, minister emeritus, officiating. Private burial will be in Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle.

Mr. Coffee was born in Miami and was a longtime Amarillo resident. He graduated from Amarillo High School in 1933. He served with the Navy during World War II. Mr. Coffee was retired from the U.S. Postal Service.

He was a member of First Christian Church. Mr. Coffee married Mary Miller in 1962 at Amarillo.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Virgil Coffee.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Carol Smith of Amarillo and Sharon Summers of Littleton, Colo.; stepchildren Marion Brown of Las Cruces, N.M., John Sears of Amarillo and Katy Klepper of Naperville, Ill.; a sister, Carrie Keaster of Anacortes, Wash.; a brother, Earl Coffee of Phoenix; either grand-children and nine great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to First Christian Church, 3001 Wolflin Ave., Amarillo, TX 79109.

Eldon Francis Coffee and Mary Virginia Miller were married. Mary Virginia Miller was born on 12 May 1913 in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX. Mary died in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX on 10 July 2012 and was buried at Llano Cemetery in Amarillo, Randall Co., TX on 14 July 2012 .³⁹⁷⁹⁷

Obituary, Amarillo Globe-News, Jul. 13, 2012

Mary Virginia Miller Coffee, 99, of Amarillo died on Tuesday, July 10, 2012. 

Memorial services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 14, 2012 at the Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel, 2800 Paramount Blvd. with Barry Loving, Pastor at First Christian Church, officiating. Private burial will be at Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors. 

Mary Virginia Miller Coffee was born in Amarillo, Texas on May 12, 1913. 

She is survived by her son, John Thomas Sears of Austin, and her daughter, Katy (Mrs. Ron) Klepper of Naperville, Illinois. Grandchildren include Dawn (Mrs. Bryon) Matesi of Phoenix, Matthew Klepper and his wife, Stacy, of Downers Grove, Illinois, David Klepper and his wife, Sophia, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Paul Klepper of Seneca, Kansas, and step-daughters, Sharon Summers of Centennial, Colorado, and Carol Smith, of Amarillo. Great-Grandchildren are Andrew, Matthew, and Ethan Klepper of Downers Grove, Illinois. 

Mary had many friends through her long life. She was a member of the Llano Estacado Chapter of the National Society of the DAR, the Happy Timers Sunday School Class of the First Christian Church, and NARFE. 

Mary was preceded in death by her son, Marion Brown, her husband, Eldon Coffee, her parents, Patie and Marion Miller, her brother, Herbert, and her sisters, Dorothy Eugenia Miller Makeig and Margaret Ermine Miller Williamson. 

The family wishes to thank the staff of Ware Memorial Care Center for the loving care provided. A special thanks is given to Patsy Wright for forty years of love and friendship, and to Mary's nieces, Martha Davis and Mona Seth, and their husbands, for the love and attention given her especially during the last few years. They made it possible for Mary to live her life with dignity, laughter, and a sense of family love. 

Leave online condolences at www.boxwellbrothers.com. 

Eldon Francis Coffee and Mary Virginia Miller had the following children: