Date of birth: 12 October 1889 Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 3 August 1975 Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
Franklin Daily Journal 4 August 1975
Mrs. Coffman, Methodist home resident, dies
Mrs. Iona (Ealy) Coffman, an 85-year-old resident of the United Methodist
Home at Franklin, died Sunday evening at the retirement home. She had
been a resident there for about two years.
The funeral service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Thursday from the
United Methodist Home Chapel. Rev. James Ray will officiate.
Friends may call at the memory room of the home from 6 to 8 p.m. on
Wednesday. Burial will be in Nineveh Cemetery. Arrangements were made by
Vandivier-Parsley Funeral Home in Franklin.
A life-long Johnson County resident, Mrs. Coffman was born Oct. 12, 1889,
to Jacob and Etoile (Muck) Ealy. She was educated in Nineveh schools.
She married Robert Coffman in 1909 and he died in 1965. Mrs. Coffman was
a member of the Franklin First United Presbyterian Church, Daughters of
the American Revolution and the Pi Beta Phi Mothers Club.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Lewis Hiester of New York, two
grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mrs. Coffman was preceded in
death by two brothers and two sisters.
Submitted by Mark Wirey