Tenth Generation

20251. Ethel Oliver Coffee was born on 2 January 1933 in Saco, Phillips Co., MT. Ethel died in Louisiana on 7 May 2010 and was buried at Centuries Memorial Cemetery in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA in May 2010 .⁴⁷¹⁹⁹

Obituary from Centuries Memorial Funeral Home:

Funeral services for Ethel Coffee Couvillion, 77, will be held on Monday, May 17, 2010, at 3:30 p.m. at Centuries Memorial Funeral Home with Rev. Art Vance officiating.

Ethel was born January 2, 1933, in Saco, MT and passed away peacefully in her sleep on May 7, 2010, at her home. She attended schools in Amarillo, TX and graduated from Los Alamos High School. Ethel earned a Bachelor of Music Education from Texas State College for Women at Denton. She loved singing, directing and playing the organ. 

On October 20, 1956, she married Albert Jack Couvillion, Jr. in Los Alamos, NM. She taught in the Elementary Music Department at Los Alamos County schools from 1954 to 1957. Ethel also volunteered in various roles for the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in Tucson, AZ including Troop Leader, Den Leader, Trainer of Leaders and Girl Scout Field Director. She also taught senior adults computer skills at Pima Community College in Texas.

She is survived by her husband, Albert Jack Couvillion, Jr.; her sons, Laurence Couvillion of Thousand Oaks, CA, and Joseph Couvillion of Shreveport; and daughter, Ellen McLaughlin of Rolla, MO. She will be missed by her five grandchildren.

Contributions may be made to The Coffee Memorial Scholarship in care of Cal Farley's Boys' Ranch, P.O. Box 1890, Amarillo, TX.

A living couple was married in 1956 in Los Alamos, Los Alamos Co., NM. Living (private).

Ethel Oliver Coffee and Living had the following children: