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Christine Cordelia <I>Coffey</I> Willey

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Christine Cordelia Coffey Willey

Birth
Edina, Knox County, Missouri, USA
Death
10 May 1929 (aged 17)
Edina, Knox County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Edina, Knox County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Row 5 SEQ
Memorial ID
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MO d/c 18595— Gives burial place as Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, but she was removed to Linville on November 02, 1950.

YOUNG WIFE DIED FRIDAY
Mrs. Ralph Willey Was Ill Almost 5 months of Tuberculosis.

Mrs. Ralph Willey, 17 years old, died at 3 o'clock Friday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Coffey, northeast of Edina, after an illness of about five months of tuberculosis.
Funeral services were conducted at the Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church, northeast of here, at 11 o'clock Sunday morning by the Rev. L. F. Gerard of Knox City. Burial was in the cemetery near the church by the side of the grave of an infant brother, Glenn Coffey, who had been dead for some years.
Besides her parents Mrs. Willey is survived by her husband and several uncles and an aunt, Miss Anna Coffey, of near Knox City.
As Christine Cordelia Coffey Mrs. Willey was born Aug. 2, 1911. She attended Edina High School three years, until last spring. She and Mr. Willey were married Sept. 26, 1928, by the Rev. Mr. Gerard in Knox City.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri, May 16, 1929

Obituary.
Mrs. Ralph Willey, 17 years, 9 months and 8 days old, having taken pneumonia on Nov. 25, 1928, which developed into tuberculosis, died May 10 at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Coffey, northeast of Edina, Mo.
Funeral services were conducted May 12 at the Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church by the Rev. L. F. Gerard of Knox City, Mo. She was converted and united with the Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church by Brother Scott of LaGrange when 11 years old and lived a faithful member until the end.
Burial was in the Pleasant Ridge cemetery by the side of her brother, Glenn, who preceded her in death nineteen years ago.
Besides her husband and parents she is survived by several uncles and one aunt, Miss Anna Coffey, of Knox City.
Christine Cordelia Coffey Willey was born Aug. 2, 1911. She attended the Edina High School three years before her marriage to Ralph Willey Sept. 26, 1928, at Knox City by the Rev. L. F. Gerard.
The flower girls were: Misses Alvera Parrish, Pauline Towles, Dortha Rimer and Velma Klote and Mrs. Cecil Parrish and Mrs. Audra Blackburn. The pallbearers were Mildred Goodwin, Tom Sharp,n
Cecil Parrish, Audra Blackburn, Oscar Jarvis and Elmo Jarvis.
She has gone with the Angels, and none do I see so dear as the face of Christine to me.
MO d/c 18595— Gives burial place as Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, but she was removed to Linville on November 02, 1950.

YOUNG WIFE DIED FRIDAY
Mrs. Ralph Willey Was Ill Almost 5 months of Tuberculosis.

Mrs. Ralph Willey, 17 years old, died at 3 o'clock Friday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Coffey, northeast of Edina, after an illness of about five months of tuberculosis.
Funeral services were conducted at the Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church, northeast of here, at 11 o'clock Sunday morning by the Rev. L. F. Gerard of Knox City. Burial was in the cemetery near the church by the side of the grave of an infant brother, Glenn Coffey, who had been dead for some years.
Besides her parents Mrs. Willey is survived by her husband and several uncles and an aunt, Miss Anna Coffey, of near Knox City.
As Christine Cordelia Coffey Mrs. Willey was born Aug. 2, 1911. She attended Edina High School three years, until last spring. She and Mr. Willey were married Sept. 26, 1928, by the Rev. Mr. Gerard in Knox City.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri, May 16, 1929

Obituary.
Mrs. Ralph Willey, 17 years, 9 months and 8 days old, having taken pneumonia on Nov. 25, 1928, which developed into tuberculosis, died May 10 at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Coffey, northeast of Edina, Mo.
Funeral services were conducted May 12 at the Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church by the Rev. L. F. Gerard of Knox City, Mo. She was converted and united with the Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church by Brother Scott of LaGrange when 11 years old and lived a faithful member until the end.
Burial was in the Pleasant Ridge cemetery by the side of her brother, Glenn, who preceded her in death nineteen years ago.
Besides her husband and parents she is survived by several uncles and one aunt, Miss Anna Coffey, of Knox City.
Christine Cordelia Coffey Willey was born Aug. 2, 1911. She attended the Edina High School three years before her marriage to Ralph Willey Sept. 26, 1928, at Knox City by the Rev. L. F. Gerard.
The flower girls were: Misses Alvera Parrish, Pauline Towles, Dortha Rimer and Velma Klote and Mrs. Cecil Parrish and Mrs. Audra Blackburn. The pallbearers were Mildred Goodwin, Tom Sharp,n
Cecil Parrish, Audra Blackburn, Oscar Jarvis and Elmo Jarvis.
She has gone with the Angels, and none do I see so dear as the face of Christine to me.

Inscription

CHRISTINE
COFFEY WIFE OF
RALPH P. WILLEY
1911-1929

NOT MY WILL BUT THINE BE DONE



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