Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Coggins, Ralph, 1980 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ RALPH COGGINS Ralph Coggins, 76, of 509 Cedar Court, died Tuesday in Louise Obici Memorial Hospital. He was a native of Sanford, N.C. He was the husband of Mrs. Annie Laurie Holland Cobbins and son of the late Willis Oscar Coggins and Mrs. Annie Pierce Coggins*. He was a member of the Suffolk Christian Church and a retired teacher and merchant. Besides his widow surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Bonnie C. McCrary of Suffolk and Mrs. Mima Anne Piedmont of Carolina Beach, N.C.; one foster daughter, Mrs. Betty Ann Layden of Suffolk; two sisters, Mrs. Florence Johnson and Mrs. Leola Turner and one brother, Wilbur J. Coggins all of Sanford, N.C. and seven grandchildren. A funeral service will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at the graveside in Cedar Hill Cemetery, by Rev. R.E. Brittle. The funeral procession will leave the R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home at 10:45 a.m. The family will be at the funeral home Wednesday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Memorial may be made to the Nansemond-Suffolk Rescue Squad. Ralph COGGINS, of Suffolk, retired teacher & merchant, Sanford, Lee Co., NC native, d. 24 Jun 1980, Suffolk, age 76, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 112**), Suffolk, 26 Jun 1980, "The Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," June 24, 1980, p. 2 **Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt *His parents, marked COGGIN, are buried in Grace Chapel Church Cemetery, Tramway, Lee Co., NC. (Find a Grave Mem. #116682259 & #116682285) Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/c252r1ob.txt