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Commerce Journal
Feb 15, 2006
Funeral services for Opal Redman Coffman, 95, were held
at 11 a.m. Friday at Jones-Walker & Son Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Charles
Strickland and Rev. Jimmy Rose officiating. Interment followed at Hopkins
County Emblem Cemetery. Mrs. Coffman of Sulphur Springs and longtime Commerce
resident went home to be with the Lord on Feb. 7, 2006, at Hopkins County
Memorial Hospital. Born Oct. 16, 1910, in Yowell, she was the daughter of
Jesse Benjamin and Martha Jane Willingham Redman. Mrs. Coffman married Amos
Andrew Coffman on July 3, 1926, in Hopkins County. She was a member of
Ridgecrest Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1974;
one son, Donald Coffman in 1998; her parents and five sisters. Survivors
include four daughters, Myrtle Rogers of Como, Susie Littrell of Sulphur
Springs, Bennie Wisdom of Rolla, Mo., and Pat Murray of Sulphur Springs; three
sons, David Coffman of Dodd City, Texas, Truitt Coffman of Campbell and Doyle
Coffman of Pecan Gap; and one sister, Lizzie Lou Teel of Oklahoma. She is
grandmother to 18 children, a great-grandmother to 32 children and
great-great-grandmother to 34 children.
Pallbearers are grandsons Jimmy Rogers, Randall Littrell, James Wisdom, Larry
Coffman, Tony Coffman and Andy Coffman. Memorials may be made to Ridgecrest
Baptist Church, 918 Bishop, Commerce, TX 75428.