Tenth Generation

21263. George Clinton Coffey was born on 25 August 1946 in Stuarts Draft, Augusta Co., VA.⁷²²⁵ George died in Warm Springs, Bath Co., VA on 18 December 1972 in a wreck and was buried at Mountain Top Christian Church Cemetery in Love, Augusta Co., VA on 20 December 1972 .^{47988,47989,47990}

Obituary, The News Virginian, Waynesboro, VA, 19 Dec., 1972

A Waynesboro area man was killed instantly yesterday morning in a non-collision wreck on Va. 39 approximately one-half mile west of Warm Springs in Bath County, State Police report.

The victim was identified as George Clinton Coffey, 26, of Gravel Ridge Rd. and an employe of Blue Ridge Dunbrik Co., Inc.

Police said the westbound vehicle went off the left side of the highway, struck a bank and wet down a 150 to 200-foot embankment. The body was found nearly 14 feet from the truck's initial impact, having been thrown from the 10-wheel straight truck, police added.

Police said the victim had sustained massive skull fractures. The truck was described by police as a "total" loss.

J. M. Johnson, vice president of Blue Ridge Dunbrik, said Mr. Coffey was driving a truck carrying completed septic tanks to the Hot Springs area, one of two trucks making the run.

He said the first truck, driven by Lee Rohrbaugh of Crimora had reached a certain point to wait for the second one. When it did not arrive, Mr. Rohrbaugh turned his rig around and went back to Warm Springs, not seeing the accident.

When he returned west, he spotted Mr. Coffey's cap along the road and then spotted the wreck.
Mr. Johnson said it could not be determined what happened, whether Mr. Coffey had lost control of the vehicle or if he became ill. He said there was no indication of a failure by the vehicle.
Mr. Coffey was born in Stuarts Draft on Aug. 25, 1946, a son of Ira and Elizabeth Coffey of Stuarts Draft. He was a member of Mountain Top Christian Church.

In addition to his parents, survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary Roberts Coffey, and three sons, James C. Coffey, Allen W. Coffey, and Timothy M. Coffey, all at home; three sisters, Mrs. Mildred Roadcap of Waynesboro, and Mrs. Shirley Painter and Mrs. Joyce Groah, both of Stuarts Draft; and four brothers, Steve Coffey of Crimora and Herman Coffey, Tony Coffey and Norman Coffey, all of Stuarts Draft.

A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at McDow-Tyree Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. Scott C. Hutton Sr.

Interment will be in the Mountain Top Christian Church cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Roger Truslow, J. M. Johnson, R. C. McVey, Sidney R. Shirley, Eddie Patton and Rodger Roadcap.

Honorary pallbearers will be Bill Roberts, A. C. Caul and Willy Baylor.

There will be no public viewing.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.

A living couple was married in 1965 in Dinwiddie Co., VA.⁴⁷⁹⁹¹ Living, daughter of Ellis Roberts and Gertie Hazel Dean, was born circa 1951 in Virginia.