Garden of John grave is back to our left 50 feet.
COFFEY, Marvin Young, (25 Jul) 1896 - (24 Apr) 1973, (son of William Fine & Samantha Virginia Wiley Coffee.) not listed in Maury County Tennessee Cemeteries.
COFFEY, Emma Lillian Duncan, (17 May) 1898 - (17 Jul) 1978, (wife of Marvin Young Coffey,daughter of Frank D. & Mary Ella (Trice) Duncan who are interred in Gibsonville Cemetery, Giles County.) not listed in Maury County Tennessee Cemeteries.
Columbia Daily Herald April 25, 1973, Page 4
Marvin Young Coffey
Marvin Young Coffey, 76 a resident of 311 East 17th St. died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon at the Bel-Air Manor Nursing Home where he and his wife had been living for the past several months.
Funeral Services for Mr. Coffey will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at Oaks & Nichols Funeral Home by the Rev. Eugene Barrett minister St Luke's United Methodist Church, Officiating. Burial will be in Polk Memory Gardens.
A native of Giles County, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Fine Coffey.
A resident of Columbia for 31 years; he was a retired mill superintendent for the W. M. Butler Mill
Company. He was married to Lillian Duncan Coffey and was a member of St. Luke's Methodist Church,
Survivors in addition to his wife include two daughters, Mrs. V, S. (Ella) Stevens and Mrs. J.E. (Marguere) Parker, both of Bartow, Fla.; two sons, William Franklin Coffey and L. M. Coffey, both of Columbia; one sister, Mrs. Nell Chaffin Barlar of Stiversville; eight grandchildren; and three great-
grandchildren.
Active pallbearers will be F. A. Nelson, James Collier, Leroy Thurman, Frank Duncan, Brown Foster, Elmer Cross, Baxter Blackburn, Pete Harlan, Tillman Coffey and Raymond Davis.
Honorary pallbearers will be former employees of W. M. Butler Company, Ben Foster, Robert Collier, Kenneth Johns, James Dobbins and Dr. Harry Helm.
Mrs. Marvin Young Coffey
Mrs. Lillian Duncan Coffey, 80, formerly of East Seventeenth Street, died this morning Maury County
Hospital following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday afternoon Oakes & Nichols funeral Home, with Rev, Eugene Barrett officiating: Burial will be in Polk Memorial Gardens.
A native of Giles County, Mrs. Coffey was the daughter of the late Frank and Mary Trice Duncan, and
the wife of the late Marvin Young Coffey. A Columbia resident for 45 years, she had lived at Graymere Nursing Home for six years. She was a member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. V.S. (Ella) Stevens and Mrs. J.E. (Marguere) Parker, both of
Fla.; a son; L.M. Coffey of Columbia; a sister, Mrs. Robert. Francis of Columbia; a brother, Roy
Duncan of Lynnville: eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Active pallbearers will be LeRoy Thurman, Alton Fox, Frank Duncan, Jimmy Collier, Monroe McMeen and Gwyn Thurman.
Honorary pallbearers will be the staff at Graymere Nursing Home.
Photo and information by Wayne Austin. Present to locate the memorial; son, LM Coffey & Granddaughter, Linda Stevens Munroe, 3 Apr 2008. Obituaries were converted to text by CW Austin and originally sent to him by Judy Forgos.
