THE PARIS NEWS, 6 Nov 1963: 'Leonard R. Coker, longtime business man and Church of Christ minister here, died Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. in St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was taken after a sudden illness at Southern Cleaners and Dyers, the business he owned. He lived at 2220 Cleveland Street. Services Friday at 10:30 a.m. will be conducted in Fry and Gibbs chapel by Elmer L'Roy and Hubert Roach, Church of Christ ministers here, interment to be made in Evergreen Cemetery. Son of J. C. Coker and his late wife, the former Tommie Vic Hearn, Leonard Ray Coker was born in Paris, 8 Sep 1910. He attended Paris High School, and a commercial college here, and was a member of the PHS Lettermen's Association. He belonged to the Lions Club and Gordon Country Club and had been a Chamber of Commerce member. He worked with his father at the Ideal Laundry before becoming manager in 1937 of the Southern Cleaners, which he currently owned. A Church of Christ minister since 1935, he had served West Paris, Emberson and other churches, and most recently, that at Bagwell. He married Miss Dorothy Amanda Cabaniss of Blossom, 8 Sep 1931, and she survives, besides his father; two children: Jack Allen Coker, Dallas, and Mrs. Ben Dickerson, Paris; one grandchild, Jeffery Tab Dickerson; these brothers: Shelby Coker, Snyder; Neil Coker, J.C. (Jake) Coker, and Carl Mac Coker, all of Paris; an uncle and three aunts.'
THE PARIS NEWS, 6 Nov 1963: 'Leonard R. Coker, longtime business man and Church of Christ minister here, died Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. in St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was taken after a sudden illness at Southern Cleaners and Dyers, the business he owned. He lived at 2220 Cleveland Street. Services Friday at 10:30 a.m. will be conducted in Fry and Gibbs chapel by Elmer L'Roy and Hubert Roach, Church of Christ ministers here, interment to be made in Evergreen Cemetery. Son of J. C. Coker and his late wife, the former Tommie Vic Hearn, Leonard Ray Coker was born in Paris, 8 Sep 1910. He attended Paris High School, and a commercial college here, and was a member of the PHS Lettermen's Association. He belonged to the Lions Club and Gordon Country Club and had been a Chamber of Commerce member. He worked with his father at the Ideal Laundry before becoming manager in 1937 of the Southern Cleaners, which he currently owned. A Church of Christ minister since 1935, he had served West Paris, Emberson and other churches, and most recently, that at Bagwell. He married Miss Dorothy Amanda Cabaniss of Blossom, 8 Sep 1931, and she survives, besides his father; two children: Jack Allen Coker, Dallas, and Mrs. Ben Dickerson, Paris; one grandchild, Jeffery Tab Dickerson; these brothers: Shelby Coker, Snyder; Neil Coker, J.C. (Jake) Coker, and Carl Mac Coker, all of Paris; an uncle and three aunts.'
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