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Dorothy and Harvey Coffey

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Harvey COFFEY

Birthplace: KY

Death: Ft. Bayard, NM

Rel: Baptist

Father: John B. COFFEY

Mother: Ollie KEVETT

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Spouse: Dorothy GRIFFIN

Birthplace: Hagen, Co.

Death: San Gabriel, CA

Occupation: Homemaker

Father: Adoniga H. GRIFFIN

Mother: Ida May CROSECLOE

Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom

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• Harvey Coffey

Harley E. Coffey Dies; Rites Pend

CROSBYTON (Special) — Harvey Elbert Coffey, 79-year-old rancher and former Crosbyton resident, died at 11 a.m. Saturday in a rest home in Fort Bayard, N.M.

Born in Kentucky, Coffey came to Seymour in 1901 and moved to Crosby County in 1907. In 1932 he moved to the ranch near Silver City, N.M., where he has made his home.

Survivors are the wife, Dorothy; one daughter, Mrs. Mike Capitan, Los Angeles, Calif.; three brothers, Romey, Crosbyton; Hembree, Levelland, and Edgar, Lubbock; five sisters, Mrs. Flake Paschall, Clovis; Mrs. Asalee Reed and Mrs. O.B. Williams, both of Lubbock; Mrs. W.W. Heathington, Ralls, and Mrs. Mary Lee Chance, Crosbyton; and three grandchildren.

Services are pending at King Funeral Home of Crosbyton.

©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, March 1966

Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes

• Dorothy Coffey

CROSBYTON (Special) — Graveside services for Dorothy G. Coffey, 101 of San Gabriel, Calif., will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Crosbyton Cemetery with the Rev. Les Griffin, pastor of Crosbyton´s First Baptist Church, officiating.

Burial will be under direction of Adams Funeral Home.

She died Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1995, in the San Gabriel Valley Community Hospital.

She was born Oct. 18, 1893, in Hagen, Colo. She married Harley Albert Coffey in Crosbyton. He died March 26, 1966. She moved to San Gabriel in 1980.

She was a homemaker, and she was a recording secretary for the Farm Bureau of New Mexico. She had also worked on the election boards. A son, Kenneth died in 1941.

Survivors include a daughter, Ollie Myrtle Kapitan of San Gabriel; a brother, Lloyd Griffin of El Monte, Calif.; three grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, February 7, 1995

Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes

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