Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Lyda Faye Coppinger Abell ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Lyda Faye Coppinger Abell Lyda Faye Coppinger Abell, 85, of Greenville, died Thursday morning, October 16, 2003, at Presbyterian Hospital. Funeral services are at 10:00 AM Saturday, October 18, 2003, at Family Fellowship under the direction of Coker- Mathews Funeral Home. Rev. Paul Blue and Don Coppinger will officiate. Burial is in Memoryland Memorial Park. The daughter of Tom Coppinger and Eula Horrocks Coppinger, she was born on January 25, 1918, in Greenville. On February 2, 1938, she was married to J. D. Abell in Greenville. Mrs. Abell was a homemaker. She attended Family Fellowship and was a member of the Primetimers Sunday school class. Surviving are her husband of Greenville; two sons and daughters-in-law, Benny Abell and Georgia Abell and Bill Abell and Lynda Abell, all of Greenville; brothers, Billy Coppinger of Wylie, Don Coppinger of Greenville, and Thomas Coppinger of Sulphur Springs; three sisters, Margaret Mabry and Sandra Tate of Greenville and Sharon Reilly of Rockwall; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Euclid Coppinger, Edwin Coppinger, Kenneth Coppinger, Gerald Coppinger; and Joe Coppinger; and sisters, Katherine Cunningham and Jean Freeman. Pallbearers are Stephen Harwick, Brad Abell, John Gilmer, Floyd Voss, Keith Welch, and Tim Waldrep. Visitation is from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, Friday, October 17, 2003, at the funeral home. (October 17, 2003, The Greenville Herald-Banner)