Coffin, Frances E. (Crowe-Beggs) 1917-2004

COFFIN, CROWE, BEGGS

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 7/7/2004 at 17:40:13

Frances E. Coffin
July 07, 2004

Frances E. Coffin, 86, of 802 S. Sixth St., died at 1:10 p.m. Tuesday, July 6, 2004, at Jefferson County Hospital.

The funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary Catholic Church, with the Rev. Stephen Page officiating. Burial will be in Pittsburg Cemetery in Pittsburg.

A Christian Wake Service will be held at 6 p.m. Friday at Raymond Funeral Home, followed by family visitation from 7-8 p.m.

Memorials have been established to the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center, the Nelson Nursing Home activity fund and Mass stipends at St. Mary Catholic Church.

Mrs. Coffin was born Nov. 25, 1917, at Highland Center, the daughter of Glenn H. and Gertrude Aby Crowe. She married Creighton Beggs Dec. 27, 1940; he died Nov. 17, 1964. She married T. Earl Coffin Aug. 24, 1984.

She was a resident of Jefferson County most of her life. She attended Bonnett school near Birmingham. A 30-year employee at Universal Producing Company, she retired in 1980.

Mrs. Coffin was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church and the Altar and Rosary Society.

She had been a volunteer at the Fairfield Senior Citizen Center for many years.

Survivors include her husband; one stepdaughter, Mary Coffin and husband Darrell Hemm of Birmingham; one stepgrandson; and two brothers, Warren Crowe of Shreveport, La., and Robert Crowe of Peoria, Ill.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband; and four brothers, Alvin, Raymond, Chester and Albert Crowe.

Courtesy of the Fairfield Daily Ledger Inc. 2004