Mexia Daily News - Aug. 12, 2003 edition

Jim Coleman

FAIRFIELD - Funeral services for Jim Wallace Coleman, 80, of Fairfield, will be
held Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock in First United Methodist Church.
Officiating will be the pastor, the Rev. Wayne Flowers, and David Filis. Burial
will be in Fairfield Cemetery.

Mr. Coleman, who died Sunday in Waco, was born Nov. 15, 1922, in Kirvin, to the
late Luther Clifford and Sarah Elizabeth Carter Coleman. He served in the U.S.
Army during World War II as a Motor Machinist Mate First class. The Colemans
lived in Fairfield from 1946 to 1952, and again from 1982 until the present.
They also resided in the Dallas area for a brief time. Jim retired from
Fairfield Ford, where he was a Ford Auto Parts Specialist.

A member of First United Methodist Church, Mr. Coleman also held memberships in
the VFW Post 5782 and the Freestone County Game Association, and also was an
honorary member of the Texas Medical Assistants Society. He was a member and
former officer of the Ford Parts & Service Managers Association in Dallas.

The family will receive friends this evening from 6 until 8 o'clock at Capps
Memorial Chapel.

Mr. Coleman was preceded in death by his parents; an uncle, David Carter, and
by three brothers - Furney A. Coleman, Randall Coleman and C.E. Coleman.

Surviving are his wife, Juliette Coleman of Fairfield; a son, James Randall
Coleman of Dallas; two brothers and sisters-in-law, John A. and Neva Coleman of
Kirvin, Joe Carter and Mary Ann Coleman of Arlington; and two sisters and
brothers-in-law, Floys Dean and Jerrel Little of Teague, and Frances Elizabeth
and O.D. Christian of Kirvin.