Eighth Generation


11725. Ethel Madie Coffey was born circa 1901 in Tennessee. Ethel died on 4 February 1985 at the age of 84 in Crosbyton, Crosby Co., TX and was buried at Crosbyton Cemetery in Crosbyton, Crosby Co., TX.

Obituary, Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Feb., 1985

Ralls (Special) — Services for Ethel Heathington, 83, of Ralls will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Emma Church of Christ with Loy Hardesty, minister, officiating. 

Burial will be in City of Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.

She died at 5 p.m. Monday in Crosbyton Hospital after a lengthy illness.

She was born in Knoxville, Tenn. She married Wallace W. Heathington on March 6, 1921, in Ralls. She moved to Crosby County in 1915 from Seymour. She was a member of Emma Church of Christ.

Survivors include her husband; a son, Odell of Ralls; a brother, Edgar Coffey of Lubbock; two sisters, Mamie Paschal of Clovis, N.M., and Willie Williams of Lubbock; a grandchild; and two great grandchildren.

Ethel Madie Coffey and Wallace Woody Heathington were married on 6 March 1921 in Ralls, Crosby Co., TX. Wallace Woody Heathington was born in 1906 in Duster, Comanche Co., TX. Wallace died on 2 August 1988 at the age of 82 at Ralls Nursing Home in Ralls, Crosby Co., TX and was buried at Crosbyton Cemetery in Crosbyton, Crosby Co., TX on 4 August 1988.

Ralls (Special) - Services for Wallace Woody Heathington, 82, of Ralls will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Emma Church of Christ with Dennis May, minister, officiating. 

Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.

He died at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Ralls Nursing Home after a lengthy illness.

He was born in Duster and moved to Ralls in 1919. He married Ethel Maidie Coffey on March 6, 1921, in Ralls. She died Feb. 4, 1985. He was a farmer, a World War II veteran, a member of Masonic Lodge No. 1020 in Crosbyton and a member of the Church of Christ. A son, Jay E., died in 1953.

Survivors include a son, Odell of Ralls; a brother, Bud of Stockton; a granddaughter; and two great grandchildren.

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