General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> /Pat/
The January 2, 1976 Bandera Newspaper obituary for WilliamHarvey (Pat)
Coffey reads:
LONG TIME RESIDENT OF BANDERA DIED CHRISTMAS EVE
William H. Coffey, age 87, died in Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital in
Kerrville on Wednesday, December 24, 1975, following a brief illness.
Mr. Coffey had been a resident of Purple Hills Nursing Home for several
years.
He was born in Coryell County, Texas on July 6, 1888, the son of pioneer
Texans.  SmithCoffey and Nancy Kerby Coffey.  He had lived nearly all
his life in BanderaCounty in the Tarpley community.  He was a retired
rancher and was highly esteemed by all who knew him.
Funeral services were conducted for him Saturday, December 27, 1975, at 2
p.m. from Plummer Funeral Chapel with Rev. Roy Spannagel, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Bandera, officiating and he was laid to rest in
the Tarpley Cemetery.
Survivors include four nephews, Bill Coffey of Hondo, Clay Wight and
William Clyde Wright of Bandera, and Raymond Wright of Houston; one
niece, Mrs. W. I. (Lenna) Walker of Bandera; and several other nieces and
nephews.  Casket carriers were Bill Short, Arthur Erfurt, Felix Billings,
Everett Koontz, Buster Schmidt, John James and Elzie Dean.
Honorary pallbearers named were Bill Allen of San Antonio, Pres Word of
Medina, Les Short of Vanderpool, John Tyra of Utopia, Taylor Wootton and
Rev. Ira Garrison of Bandera.  Plummer Funeral Chapel had charge of
arrangements.
The tombstone of William Harvey (Pat) Coffey reads:
COFFEY
WILLIAM HARVEY
(PAT)
JULY 6, 1888
DEC. 24, 1975
A FRIEND TO ALL
THAT KNEW HIM