Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Coggin, William B., 1960 

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WILLIAM BENJAMIN COGGIN

Coggin Service This Afternoon 

  WINDSOR - Funeral services for William Benjamin Coggin will be conducted 
today at 3:30 p.m. at the W.J.M. Holland Funeral Home by the Rev. Donald 
Trump, pastor of Colosse Baptist Church.  Burial will be in Colosse Cemetery. 
The family has requested that flowers be omitted. 

  Mr. Coggins, 83, retired VPI professor, died Thursday night at Raiford 
Memorial Hospital after a long illness. 

  He was a son of John and Mrs. Parthenia Spivey Coggin of Windsor. 

  Mr. Coggin attended Windsor Academy, graduated from William and Mary College 
and was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa. 

  After graduate work at University of Virginia and George Peabody College for 
Teachers, he taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute for 25 years as 
professor of education. 

  After his retirement, he moved to his farm near Windsor.  He was a member of 
Colosse Baptist Church, Providence Forge Masons, the Odd Fellows and Woodmen 
of The World lodges, Blacksburg Lions Club and Windsor Ruritan Club, American 
Assn. of College Professors and Virginia Academy of Science. 

  On May 11, 1911 he married Miss Georgia Dunn of Wichita, Kan., who survives 
him. 

  He is also survived by one brother, John Coggin of Windsor and two sisters, 
Mrs. Benjamin Vaughan of Windsor and Mrs. Thomas H. Carr of Carrsville. 

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RETIRED VPI PROFESSOR BURIED AT COLOSSE

   WINDSOR - William Benjamin Coggin, 83, died Thursday night at Raiford 
Memorial Hospital after a long illness.  He was the son of the late John 
and Mrs. Parthenia Spivey Coggin.

   Mr. Coggin attended Windsor Academy, graduated from William and Mary 
College, where he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  After graduate work 
at the University of Virginia and George Peabody College for Teachers, he 
taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute for twenty five years as Professor 
of Education.  After his retirement he moved to his farm near Windsor.

   He was a member of Colosse Baptist Church, also a member of the Providence 
Forge Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Woodman of the World Lodges, of the 
Blacksburg Lions Club and the Windsor Rurtian Club and the Windsor Ruritan 
Club, the American Association of College Professors and the Virginia Academy 
of Science.

   On May 11th, 1911 he married Miss Georgia Dunn of Wichita, Kan. who 
survives him.  He is also survived by one brother, John Coggin of Windsor; 
two sisters, Mrs. Benjamin Vaughan of Windsor and Mrs. Thomas H. Carr of 
Carrsville, and a number of nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel of W.J.M. 
Holland and Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Donald E. Trump, pastor of the 
Colosse Baptist Church.  Burial was in Colosse Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Junius Bradshaw, Franklin Vaughan, Alton Spivey, Grafton 
Spivey, Ralston Rhodes, Jefferson Marshall, Richard Holland and Robert Turner.


William Benjamin COGGIN, of near Windsor, retired VPI professor, 
b. 11 Jan 1877, VA, d. 10 Mar 1960, Franklin, 
interred in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery*, Collosse, 13 Mar 1960, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 38, No. 61, Mon., Mar. 13, 1960, p. 9; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 14, 1960, p. 4 

*His parents are also buried there. 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #44: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 9304 (Franklin #35), which mistakenly gives his 
   mother as Mrs. W.B. Coggin [transposed from line below]. 

His father served in the Isle of Wight Grays - Co. D, 16th Va Infantry, CSA. 


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