Coffelt, Mary 1925-2024 Maryville, Mo.
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MARYVILLE, Mo. – Mary Huff Coffelt, age 98, passed away on April 21, 2024, in Maryville, Missouri. Her parents were Floyd M. and Violet Jenson Huff.
On March 9, 1946, she was united in marriage to Wesley D. Coffelt, of Ravenwood, Missouri, at the Methodist Church in Holton, Kansas. After a trip to Colorado they moved to a farm west of Parnell, Missouri, owned by Judge J. Dorr Ewing, of Maryville. There they farmed with horses and no modern conveniences.
In the fall of 1949 they purchased their first farm east of Maryville in the Bedison Community. With the exception of three years when the family lived in the Los Angeles, California, area, Mary lived on this farm. A homemaker and farm wife, she was honored in 1991 as Nodaway County Farm Wife of the Year. Mary was a former member of the Mutual Improvement Circle, the Penelope Club and the Maryville Garden Club. She was a life-long Methodist and a member of the Maryville First United Methodist Church.
Others preceding her in death were her husband, Wesley (December 28, 1992); an infant daughter, Tammy Sue; daughter, Linda Dougan; son-in-law, Gary Staten; her parents; grandparents; three sisters; an infant, Wilma, Eileen, and Eva Goforth; her in-laws, Eldon and Minnie Coffelt, of Ravenwood; several brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law and others in the Coffelt family; her brother-in-law, Bryl Goforth, Savannah, Missouri; uncles, aunts, cousins and friends.
Mary is survived by three daughters, Vickie (John) Brown, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Cynthia Staten, Ravenwood, Virginia (Bill) Bateman, of Overland Park, Kansas; and son-in-law Keith Dougan, Maryville. Her grandchildren, Jonathan Brown (Jenn), Baltimore, Maryland, Robin Brown (Ernie), McFarlane, Colorado Springs, Mark (Lori) Staten, Tarkio, Missouri, Jeremy (Marcee) Dougan, Maryville, Keitha Dougan (Michael) Clapp, Hopkins, Missouri, Mende Staten (Tim) Kemper, Hawk Point, Missouri, and Blair (Danikka) Bateman, Lenexa, Kansas; great- grandchildren include Keira (Jordan) McCrary, Kylee (Trevor) Townsend, Gentri, Bryli (Fritz Lager) and Quin Staten, Ava and Addison Kemper, Sadee and Sophee Clapp, and Luke Kennedy Eker and Wesley Bateman. She is also survived by one niece, Nancy Goforth (Michael) Kelly, Blue Springs, Missouri; one nephew, Alan (Sherri) Goforth, Lee’s Summit, Missouri; two great-nephews, Jonathan Goforth and Brandon Kelly (Courtney); two great-nieces, Kristin Kelly (Jacob) Jester, Litchfield Park, Arizona, and Brittany Goforth (Jesse) Johnson.
Visitation on Friday, May 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Price Funeral Home. Graveside services at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, at the Wilcox Cemetery, Wilcox, Missouri.
Memorials may be made to the Wilcox Cemetery Association or the Maryville First United Methodist Church in Mary’s name. As published in the St. Joseph News-Press.
