CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Dorothy Coffman, 10 Sep 1999
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Dorothy Coffman, restaurant owner,dies at JCMC
09/13/99 
   Mrs. Dorothy Dunn Coffman, 71, 914 Fairview Street, Elizabethton, died 
Friday, September 10, 1999, at Johnson City Medical Center after a brief 
illness.
   Mrs. Coffman was a native of Carter County and a daughter of the late 
John Hobert and Thelma Jones Dunn. She was also preceded in death by her 
husband, Lloyd William "Jack" Coffman.
   Mrs. Coffman had operated the Southern Restaurant in Elizabethton for 
47 years. She was a member of the East Side Baptist Church.
   Survivors include two sons, Charles David Coffman and Joe S. Coffman, 
both of Elizabethton; a daughter, Nancy Coffman Norton, Bristol; a brother, 
Charlie Dunn, Roan Mountain; and four grandchildren, Gloria and Nathan 
Coffman, both of Elizabethton, and Charlie and Michael Norton, both of 
Bristol. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
   Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

   COFFMAN -- Funeral services for Mrs. Dorothy Dunn Coffman, 71, 914 
Fairview Street, Elizabethton, who died Friday, will be conducted at 8 p.m. 
Sunday at East Side Baptist Church with Dr. Dwight Hobbs officiating. 
Graveside services and interment will be at 3 p.m. Monday at Happy Valley 
Memorial Park. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the 
church at 7:50 p.m. Sunday and also at the funeral home at 2:30 p.m. Monday, 
will be the deacons of East Side Baptist Church. Honorary pallbearers will 
be the employees of Southern Restaurant and her many customers through the 
years. The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday at East Side 
Baptist Church. Friends may also call at the residence of a son, Joe S. 
Coffman, 817 Riverview Drive, Elizabethton. Family and friends will assemble 
at the funeral home at 2:30 p.m. Monday to go to the cemetery. To those 
who prefer, memorials may be made in memory of Mrs. Coffman to the East Side 
Baptist Church. Mrs. Coffman will be moved to the church at 2 p.m. Sunday. 
Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.