Ninth Generation

17417. Claude D. Coffey was born on 14 December 1916 in Oklahoma. Claude died on 26 March 1976 at the age of 59 in Oklahoma and was buried at Buffalo Cemetery in Sayre, Beckham Co., OK.⁴⁴⁰⁰⁶

Claude D. Coffey and Sylvia Adell Price were married on 20 December 1936 in Mayfield, Beckham Co., OK. Sylvia Adell Price was born on 8 January 1919 in Kennific, Bryan Co., OK. Sylvia died on 26 November 2003 at the age of 84 in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX and was buried at Buffalo Cemetery in Sayre, Beckham Co., OK on 1 December 2003.^44007,44008

Amarillo Globe-News, Amarillo, Potter Co., TX, Sun., Nov. 30, 2003

Sylvia Adell Coffey, 84, of Amarillo died Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2003.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in San Jacinto Baptist Church with Dr. Stan Coffey officiating. Burial will be at 3 p.m. Monday in Buffalo Cemetery in Sayre, Okla., by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors, 5400 S. Bell Ave.

Mrs. Coffey was born Jan. 8, 1919, in Kennific, Bryan County, Okla. She was the eighth of 12 children born to John Henry and Laura Maine Price. She married Claudie D. Coffey on Dec. 20, 1936, in Mayfield, Okla.

During the earlier years of their marriage, the Coffeys moved to California to find work. Mr. Coffey became a foreman of a large farm, raising vegetables for the War effort during World War II. With the end of World War II, the Coffeys returned to Oklahoma, where they farmed until Mr. Coffey's death in 1978.

Mrs. Coffey's earlier years were filled with the many duties of a farm wife and homemaker, and she even worked in the fields. After her two children were grown, she attended Tech School in Clinton, Okla., to become a physical therapist. She worked in the Sayre Hospital for many years, until her retirement in 1980.

Following her husband's death, Mrs. Coffey moved to Amarillo to be near her son, Dr. Stan Coffey and his wife Glenda when he became pastor for a second term at San Jacinto Baptist Church. She was active in the church for almost 20 years and was a member of the Esther Sunday school class and the pastor's class.

Survivors include a daughter, Dianne Henson and husband, Odos, of Stillwater, Okla.,; a son, Dr. Stan Coffey and wife, Glenda, of Amarillo; four grandchildren, Mrs. Kim Hall of Amarillo, Mark Henson of Tulsa, Okla., Scott Coffey of Amarillo, and Natalie Coffey Archer of Chapel Hill, N.C.; and nine great-grandchildren.

Claude D. Coffey and Sylvia Adell Price had the following children:

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Stan Coffey was born in 1945 in Beckham Co., OK. Stan died in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX on 26 December 2013 and was buried at Buffalo Cemetery in Sayre, Beckham Co., OK on 30 December 2013 .^44009,44010

Obituary, The Amarillo Globe-News, Sun., Dec. 29, 2013

The Reverend Doctor Stan Coffey, who served as the senior pastor at The Church at Quail Creek died unexpectedly Thursday morning December 26th after an extended illness. He was 68.

The body will lie in state today from 1:00 to 8:00 p.m. and the family will receive friends from 12:30-1:30 pm Monday, prior to the service at 2:00 pm at The Church at Quail Creek with Dr. Don Cass officiating. Interment will be in Buffalo Cemetery, Erick Ok. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia.

For more than 40 years, Dr. Coffey, along with his wife Glenda, served 6 churches as pastor Including County Line Baptist Church in Morton; Hurlwood Baptist Church in Lubbock, TX; First Baptist Church of Josephine, TX; Trinity Baptist Church of Texarkana, Ark.; and First Baptist Church of Albuquerque, N.M. The majority of that time he spent in two tenures as pastor at The Church at Quail Creek in Amarillo (formerly San Jacinto Baptist Church), where he served almost 35 years, first from 1975-1979 and then from 1984-present.

Raised in Sweetwater, Oklahoma, Coffey was saved at age 6 and took his first pastorate at age 20. He earned degrees from Wayland Baptist University (1970), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and California Graduate School of Theology, where he received the doctor of divinity.

Coffey served Southern Baptists in a variety of positions including board member—North American Mission Board; SBC Executive Committee; and president and vice president—SBC Pastors' Conference.

Coffey played a significant role in the events leading to the founding of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. As pastor of the large Church at Quail Creek, he was able to lend considerable support to the fledgling convention.

After the convention was formed he was tapped as its first president, serving from 1998-2000.

"Prior to the existence of the SBTC, Stan Coffey pastored the largest church in the reformation group pushing for the formation of a new convention," SBTC Executive Director Jim Richards said. "Being a man of conviction, Stan was willing to put his reputation on the line for the cause of biblical inerrancy and cooperative work among Baptists. He paid a high price for his efforts with challenges to his health and ministry. Through it all he remained faithful to win people to Jesus. Earth's loss is heaven's gain."

Known as a passionate evangelist, Coffey's church was consistently recognized for its high number of baptisms. During his 35-year tenure, Quail Creek recorded almost 10,000 baptisms of new converts.

Coffey was a recipient of the W.A. Criswell Award for Pastoral Evangelism and was also awarded the H. Paul Pressler Distinguished Service Award for his valued work during the SBC's Conservative Resurgence and his key role in the founding of the SBTC.

Dr. Coffey's knowledge of biblical prophecy inspired him to write his last book, "The Return." A renowned speaker and theologian, he has taught from the book of Revelation in his weekly Pastors class and conducted conferences on prophecy across the nation. At the time of his death, Dr. Coffey had conferences booked well into 2015.

He was preceded in death by his parents Claudie and Adell Coffey. He is survived by his wife Glenda; a son Scott Coffey of North Carolina; a daughter Natalie Coffey and her husband Dr. Richard K. Archer Jr. of Amarillo, TX. and nine grandchildren: Aaron Coffey; Ashley Coffey and her husband Mike Coleman; Richard Archer III, Holden Stan Archer, Truman Scott Archer and Sawyer Glen Archer, age 12, Emerson Faith Archer, Eleanor Scout Archer, and Finn Henry Archer; his sister Dianne and her husband Odos Henson of Stillwater Oklahoma; One niece Kim And her husband Vance Hall; one nephew Mark Henson, his wife Lori and their three children of Utah; and many other friends and family.

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