Marie A. (Webster) Coffman Ross, 84, went to be with the Lord on Feb. 17, 2005.
The daughter of Ernest and Shirley (Bunch) Webster, Marie was born on Nov. 15, 1920, in St. John, Kan.
On June 1, 1941, Marie and Gordon O. Coffman were united in marriage in Ulysses, Kan., and to this union four children were born. Mr. Coffman died in 1980 and she later married Robert Ross in October 1986. Marie owned and operated a Mary Carter Paint Store with her husband, Gordon Coffman. She was a member of Red Bank Baptist Church at Ava.
She was preceded in death by her parents, both husband, a daughter, Irene Coffman, two brothers, Raymond and Ernest Jr. Webster, and one sister, Charolette Wilson.
She is survived by two daughters, Carol Bernice Kellogg and husband, Warren, Valley Center, Kans., and Glenda Jean Young, Ottawa, Kan.; a son, Ronald G. Coffman and wife, Annette, Franklin, Ind.; five grandchildren, Steve Snyder and wife, Martha, Shawn Snyder, Sherry Chapman and husband, Dave, Donna and the Rev. Paul Hutchison, and Malaya Powell; 20 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Joan Holly, Collinsville, Okla., and Alice Lirley, Ava; one brother, John Webster, Ava; and several nieces, nephews, and many friends.
Services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 19, at the Red Bank Baptist Church, Ava, with the Rev. Paul Hutchison officiating. Interment was in the Union Grove Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Red Bank Church.
Services were under the direction of Clinkingbeard Funeral Home, Ava.
