Tarrant County Obituaries – Ila Foster Coble *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Charlotte Coble Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***********************************************   Mansfield News Mirror November 21, 1991     Funeral services were held Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church of Mansfield, for Mrs. Ila Coble.  Burial:  Mansfield Cemetery under the direction of Blessing Funeral Home.  Rev. Jim Tillman, a former minister of the church and Dr. James Moore, minister of the church officiated. Pallbearers were James Charles DeLoach, Michael Allen Phillips, Jeffrey Vincent Johnson, William Francis (Bill) Murphy, Darrell Wayne Davis and Dean Wayne Coble. Mrs. Coble, 88, mother and homemaker, died Monday, Nov. 18, 1991, at 9:45 p.m., in Huguley Hospital, Fort Worth.  She was born Oct. 2 1903, near Midlothian, Ellis County, Texas, the daughter of Robert Augusta and Gertrude Elizabeth Mastin Foster.  She and her twin sister, Itha were born shortly after the Foster family moved to Ellis County from Wilkesboro, North Carolina.  Soon after their birth, the Foster family permanently settled on their Mountain Creek farm just inside Dallas County near Britton and Gertie School.  Her formal education was completed in the nine grades of Gertie School. She was the last surviving member of the Foster family, being preceded in death by three sisters and two brothers. She married Ivan Luther Coble, Jan. 28, 1928, in Mansfield, and had six children.  They were involved in dairy farming most of their married life in the general area of Mansfield.  In 1940, the Coble family permanently settled on their farm at Mansfield, where Mrs. Coble resided until her death.  They were also active in church, civic and business life.  They were members of the First Baptist Church of Mansfield since 1938, where Mr. Coble served as Deacon. She was active in The Order of Eastern Star Chapter #876 of Mansfield, where she served as Worthy Matron.  She worked in the Parent Teachers Association for many years, and her husband served on the Board of Education for 13 years.  She supported the volunteer work of her husband as a Tarrant County Committeeman for the Farmers Home Administration and in the North Texas Dairy Producers Association.  Mr. and Mrs. Coble welcomed a Texas A&M University agricultural exchange student from Camaguay, Cuba to their home and farm during 1951.  He studied American farming with the Coble family.  The young man was later trapped by the communist regime which came to power in Cuba, but Mr. and Mrs. Coble were eventually successful through intermediaries in helping him and his family flee to Spain. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ivan Luther Coble, Jan. 17, 1973. She is survived by six children:  Ivan Joe Coble, James Leroy Coble, Trudy Lou Johnson, all of Mansfield, Peggy Joyce Phillips of Broken Arrow, Okla., Wayne Augusta Coble of Arlington, and Harold Lloyd Coble of De Soto, Mo.; 11 grandchildren; and 12 great grandchildren.