So sorry to read about the Coffelt family. My sis-in-law was Dortha R. Coffelt Pulley who was raised by her grandparents Tom and Fannie Coffelt. They lived at Powersite when I married into the Pulley family. I don't know if Dot was related to this Coffelt family but I'm sure it is quite possible back along the line. My heart goes out to the family. Betty Pulley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vonda Sheets" <vonda@peoplepc.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 8:53 AM Subject: [MOTANEY] Coffelt memorial > On 31 Mar, 2003, a house fire in Ft. Worth TX killed 3 members of the Taney > Co./Fall Creek area Coffelt family. The memorial service was held 7 Apr > 2003. > > Gerald Lee Coffelt b 17 May 1933 Branson to Homer Lee Coffelt and Iva Treat. > Homer was the s/o Andrew Coffelt and America Edwards. I have no information > on Iva's parentage. They lived near the Lewallen Cemetery in Fall Creek > Valley. > > Cora Monette Stuart b 30 Oct 1938 Houston, TX. Monette's biological father > was a Battle. When her mother married Loren Stuart, he adopted Monette and > her 2 sisters, so she grew up a Stuart. They came to the Bee Creek area > north of Branson during the 1940s. My dad learned to ride a bike on their > long, long driveway (really a road) on the ridge now called Oak Bluff. At > the funeral, Loren read a poem he had written for Monette some years ago, > and it was beautiful. > > Their daughter, Cora Layne Coffelt DeMilio b 16 Jun 1958 Branson, also died > in the fire. Layne's daughter, and son escaped uninjured from the fire. > Layne's son-in-law was seriously injured trying to rescue the others. > > I don't know that there are any Coffelt descendants on the lists, but they > are seriously intermarried with many Taney county families; Edwards, > Compton, Fausett/Faucett...well, you get the drift. If you're researching > the western side of Taney county (I know many of you are), these folks were > part of the backbone of Taney county genealogy. > > Gerald and Monette's granddaughter, Ashlynn, was a good friend of my > daughter Victoria's before her family moved to South Carolina last summer. > They were good people, and will be missed. Gerald had been seriously ill > for the past year or so, which I suspect was why they were in their > daughter's home--she was a hospice triage nurse. > > Vonda > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future."--Vladimir Horowitz, "NY Times," 17 Mar 1965 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >