Ninth Generation

14407. Judge Norman Coffee was born on 28 February 1894 in Memphis, Hall Co., TX. Norman was graduated in 1914 from Lowry-Phillips Military School in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX. He registered for the WWI draft on 5 June 1917 in Miami, Roberts Co., TX.³⁹⁶⁴⁴ Norman died in Austin, Travis Co., TX on 17 August 1984 and was buried at Miami Cemetery in Miami, Roberts Co., TX on 20 August 1984 .³⁹⁶⁴⁵

Obituary, The Borger News Herald, Jul. 19, 1984

Former Hutchinson County Judge Norman Coffee died Friday in Austin at the age of 90. Coffee was county judge here from 1931 through 1975.

Services were on Saturday in Harrell Funeral Chapel in Austin. Memorial services will be at 4 p.m. today in the First Christian Church of Amarillo with graveside services Monday in Miami Cemetery in Miami, Texas.

Coffee, who had lived in Austin in recent years, became senior county judge in Texas in 1971 after 40 years of service.

He was born in Memphis and moved to Miami with his family a year later. He graduated from Miami High School in 1913 and attended a military school in Amarillo. He later received his law degree from the University of Texas.

Coffee served a year in the Army in World War I and worked on his father's ranch as a cowboy for another year. He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1920.

Coffee began practicing law in Perryton and later opened offices in Panhandle and Wheeler. He married Ruby Hall in 1924 at Wichita, Kan. and moved to Borger in 1928. Mrs. Coffee died in 1981.

Survivors include two sons, Jon of Buda and David of Weatherford; a sister, Mrs. Ada Buchanan of Amarillo; and 10 grandchildren.

Judge Norman Coffee and Ruby Hall were married in 1924 in Texas. Ruby Hall was born on 31 January 1901 in Gorman, Eastland Co., TX. Ruby died in San Marcos, Hays Co., TX on 5 August 1981 and was buried at Miami Cemetery in Miami, Roberts Co., TX in August 1981 .³⁹⁶⁴⁶

Obituary, Unsourced Newspaper

Ruby H. Coffee, 80, of Buda, died yesterday in San Marcos.

Services are pending with N.S. Griggs & Sons Funeral Directors.

Mrs. Coffee was born in Gorman. She moved to Austin in 1980 from Hutchinson County.

Survivors include her husband, Judge Norman Coffee, two sons, Jon Norman Coffee of Buda and Don David Coffee of Weatherford; two sisters, Mrs. Hattie Maley of Woodson and Mrs. Doris Crume of Odessa; a bother, J. A. Hall of Sunray; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The family will be at 116 Avondale.

Judge Norman Coffee and Ruby Hall had the following children: