Mercer Co WV Archives -- Obituaries: COBURN, H. Jenks -- 1949


Contributed July 16, 2008 for use in USGenWeb Archives 
By: Fred Spradlin, fspradlin@earthlink.net

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Sun., Oct. 9, 1949

   H. Jenks Coburn, 66, for more than forty-fiv years with the Norfolk and
Western Railway company, died suddenly of a heart attack yesterday morning at
his home at Narrows, Va.  He had apparently been in good health, and was
preparing to have breakfast when he was stricken.
   Mr. Coburn was station agent and telegraph operator for the railroad at the
time of his death.
   Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Cleo McKinney, of Oakvale; two
sons, George Fred Coburn, dispatcher for the Virginian Railway company at
Princeton, and Master Sergeant Earl Coburn, United States Air corps, San
Bruno, Cal., and a daughter, Mrs. Warren Morris, of Narrows; four grand-
children and a brother, L. C. Coburn, Narrows; and a sister, Mrs. Harry
Burgess, of Chattanooga.
   Funeral service will be held Monday at 2:30 p.m. from the First
Presbyterian church at Narrows.  The Rev. Z. F. Mayberry of Princeton will be
assisted by the Rev. B. F. Sperow, pastor of the church, and the Rev. H. H.
Harman, pastor of the First Christian church.
   Rites in Fairview cemetery will be conducted by Intermont Lodge 269, AF and
AM, of which Mr. Coburn was a member.
   Pallbearers will be A. W. Coburn, E. D. Coburn, Harold W. hale, Hersey H.
Hale, R. Jennings Bailey and K. M. Hale.



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