Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Eighth Generation10931. Della Kattie Coffey was born on 29 September 1917 in Burke Co., NC. Della died in Granite Falls, Caldwell Co., NC on 17 October 2001 and was buried at31972 Conways Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery in Lenoir, Caldwell Co., NC in October 2001 .31973,31974 MORGANTON - Della Coffey Clarke, 84, of Hartland Road,died Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001, at Camelot Manor Nursing Care. Born Sept. 29, 1917, in Burke County, she was a daughter to the late Henry and Virginia Jenny Branch Coffey. She was a homemaker and a member of Conway Chapel Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded death by her husband, John M. Clarke; a son, Mason David Clarke; three brothers, Lawrence, Les and Carl Coffey; two sisters, Vera Powell and Ellie Clarke; and a grandson, Ricky Greene. Surviving are three sons, James Clarke, Max Clarke and Johnny Clarke, all of Morganton; two daughters, Barbara Greene of Morganton and Bonnie Coleman of Cleveland, Tenn.; a brother, John Coffey of Morganton; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. The funeral will be held 2 p.m. Friday at Greer-McElveen Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Rodney Raby officiating. Interment will follow in Conway Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be Johnathan Clarke, Matthew Clarke, Chris Richardson, Tom Martin, Rodney Clarke and Ronnie Suttles. Della Kattie Coffey and John Mathew Clarke were married circa 1938 in North Carolina. John Mathew Clarke, son of George W. Clarke and Geneva McCall, was born on 24 August 1915 in Morganton, Burke Co., NC. John died at Grace Hospital in Morganton, Burke Co., NC on 8 May 1979 of a myocardial infarction and was buried at Conways Chapel Baptist Church in Morganton, Burke Co., NC on 11 May 1979 .31975,31976,31977 Della Kattie Coffey and John Mathew Clarke had the following children:
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