Obituary From minutes of the 1995 Mulberry Gap Association
Coffey, Rufus Kyle, age 82 of Thorn Hill TN was born May 14, 1912 departed this life October 5, 1994 at the Jefferson Memorial Hospital. He was the son of the late Rev.Berry W. and Mary Jane (Sheffield) Coffey. He was preceded in death by one sister and four brothers. He professed faith in Christ an joined the Oak Hill Baptist Church January 6, 1925 where he remained a member until death. He was one of the singing leader of Oak Hill for many years. He served as church clerk from September, 1953 to September 1987. Survivors included his wife, Cecil (Dalton) Coffey of Thorn Hill, daughters Joanna Dalton of Bean Station, Audrey Bank of Thorn Hill, son, Alvin Coffey of Bean Station, 7 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral service were held Tuesday Oct 8, 1994 at Oak Hill Church with Jack Free and Rev. Bill Dalton officiating. Singers were the Liberty Quartet. Burial in the Coffey Cemetery in Thorn Hill Sadly missed by wife and family.
After 45 years in home, couple adds luxury electricity By JONI MILLS The Middles boro Daily News THORN HILL, Tenn. - Thomas A. Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879. Cecile and Rufus Coffey got to turn on the first one in their home in 1985, That's when the Coffeys first got electricity, the basic convenience of modern Ufe that most of us take for granted. Having seen the light in their home for the first time this spring, the Coffeys say some of the new things have changed their lives, but many things will always be the .same. Electricity was installed in the 100-year-old, square-log Coffey home set in the foothills of Clinch Mountain in Grainger County just a few months ago. But Cecile Coffey says she will cook on her Knox woodstove "till it burns out," and the house, which soon will be geting weatherboard "to close up some of them cracks in the logs," still will be heated with coal during the winter. "I like my refrigerator more than r f d.-'JZ i ' rf Ccilc and Rufus Coffey poe with tr elecliicol meter om their eentwy-oW lo$ home. (APbserprato) anything," she said, looking back at all the newfangled changes. "I've got a lot of things I didn't have before because you couldn't use 'em without electricity." The Coffeys now have a television set, which was bought by their daughter, and such electrified gadgets as a crock pot and coffee maker. "The kids have been buying us all kinds of stuff they couldn't buy us before, " she said. When Cecile Coffey was asked what he liked best about now having electricity, he replied: "The lights. It's a lot more handier than it was with kerosene lamps." Most of us probably wouldn't know what to do without electricity, but the Coffeys say they have had difficulty adjusting to having it "It was odd, kinda, at the start, but we're getting used to it," Cecile Coffey said. The headline that Ralph B. Miner of the Powell Valley Electric Coop put on the article he wrote about the Coffeys for The Tennessee Magazine, a publication of the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association said, "We thought we had them all but not quite!" He explained: "It's hard to believe that anyone could have lived in this area all this time and just now have had electric power connected into their home but it's true," he wrote. But it's not far-fetched to Cecile Coffey, who reared three children in the house with no electricity. "We just got used to not having it," she said. "But we could have had it along time ago." She went on to explain that a man who had property next to theirs would not sign for power lines to cross his land. "A man came through here years ago and Rufus signed, but that man ,
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Coffey, Rufus Kyle, age 82 of Thorn Hill TN was born May 14, 1912 departed this life October 5, 1994 at the Jefferson Memorial Hospital. He was the son of the late Rev.Berry W. and Mary Jane (Sheffield) Coffey. He was preceded in death by one sister and four brothers. He professed faith in Christ an joined the Oak Hill Baptist Church January 6, 1925 where he remained a member until death. He was one of the singing leader of Oak Hill for many years. He served as church clerk from September, 1953 to September 1987. Survivors included his wife, Cecil (Dalton) Coffey of Thorn Hill, daughters Joanna Dalton of Bean Station, Audrey Bank of Thorn Hill, son, Alvin Coffey of Bean Station, 7 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral service were held Tuesday Oct 8, 1994 at Oak Hill Church with Jack Free and Rev. Bill Dalton officiating. Singers were the Liberty Quartet. Burial in the Coffey Cemetery in Thorn Hill Sadly missed by wife and family.
After 45 years in home, couple adds luxury electricity By JONI MILLS The Middles boro Daily News THORN HILL, Tenn. - Thomas A. Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879. Cecile and Rufus Coffey got to turn on the first one in their home in 1985, That's when the Coffeys first got electricity, the basic convenience of modern Ufe that most of us take for granted. Having seen the light in their home for the first time this spring, the Coffeys say some of the new things have changed their lives, but many things will always be the .same. Electricity was installed in the 100-year-old, square-log Coffey home set in the foothills of Clinch Mountain in Grainger County just a few months ago. But Cecile Coffey says she will cook on her Knox woodstove "till it burns out," and the house, which soon will be geting weatherboard "to close up some of them cracks in the logs," still will be heated with coal during the winter. "I like my refrigerator more than r f d.-'JZ i ' rf Ccilc and Rufus Coffey poe with tr elecliicol meter om their eentwy-oW lo$ home. (APbserprato) anything," she said, looking back at all the newfangled changes. "I've got a lot of things I didn't have before because you couldn't use 'em without electricity." The Coffeys now have a television set, which was bought by their daughter, and such electrified gadgets as a crock pot and coffee maker. "The kids have been buying us all kinds of stuff they couldn't buy us before, " she said. When Cecile Coffey was asked what he liked best about now having electricity, he replied: "The lights. It's a lot more handier than it was with kerosene lamps." Most of us probably wouldn't know what to do without electricity, but the Coffeys say they have had difficulty adjusting to having it "It was odd, kinda, at the start, but we're getting used to it," Cecile Coffey said. The headline that Ralph B. Miner of the Powell Valley Electric Coop put on the article he wrote about the Coffeys for The Tennessee Magazine, a publication of the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association said, "We thought we had them all but not quite!" He explained: "It's hard to believe that anyone could have lived in this area all this time and just now have had electric power connected into their home but it's true," he wrote. But it's not far-fetched to Cecile Coffey, who reared three children in the house with no electricity. "We just got used to not having it," she said. "But we could have had it along time ago." She went on to explain that a man who had property next to theirs would not sign for power lines to cross his land. "A man came through here years ago and Rufus signed, but that man ,
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Obituary From minutes of the 1995 Mulberry Gap Association
Coffey, Rufus Kyle, age 82 of Thorn Hill TN was born May 14, 1912 departed this life October 5, 1994 at the Jefferson Memorial Hospital. He was the son of the late Rev.Berry W. and Mary Jane (Sheffield) Coffey. He was preceded in death by one sister and four brothers. He professed faith in Christ an joined the Oak Hill Baptist Church January 6, 1925 where he remained a member until death. He was one of the singing leader of Oak Hill for many years. He served as church clerk from September, 1953 to September 1987. Survivors included his wife, Cecil (Dalton) Coffey of Thorn Hill, daughters Joanna Dalton of Bean Station, Audrey Bank of Thorn Hill, son, Alvin Coffey of Bean Station, 7 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral service were held Tuesday Oct 8, 1994 at Oak Hill Church with Jack Free and Rev. Bill Dalton officiating. Singers were the Liberty Quartet. Burial in the Coffey Cemetery in Thorn Hill Sadly missed by wife and family.
After 45 years in home, couple adds luxury electricity By JONI MILLS The Middles boro Daily News THORN HILL, Tenn. - Thomas A. Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879. Cecile and Rufus Coffey got to turn on the first one in their home in 1985, That's when the Coffeys first got electricity, the basic convenience of modern Ufe that most of us take for granted. Having seen the light in their home for the first time this spring, the Coffeys say some of the new things have changed their lives, but many things will always be the .same. Electricity was installed in the 100-year-old, square-log Coffey home set in the foothills of Clinch Mountain in Grainger County just a few months ago. But Cecile Coffey says she will cook on her Knox woodstove "till it burns out," and the house, which soon will be geting weatherboard "to close up some of them cracks in the logs," still will be heated with coal during the winter. "I like my refrigerator more than r f d.-'JZ i ' rf Ccilc and Rufus Coffey poe with tr elecliicol meter om their eentwy-oW lo$ home. (APbserprato) anything," she said, looking back at all the newfangled changes. "I've got a lot of things I didn't have before because you couldn't use 'em without electricity." The Coffeys now have a television set, which was bought by their daughter, and such electrified gadgets as a crock pot and coffee maker. "The kids have been buying us all kinds of stuff they couldn't buy us before, " she said. When Cecile Coffey was asked what he liked best about now having electricity, he replied: "The lights. It's a lot more handier than it was with kerosene lamps." Most of us probably wouldn't know what to do without electricity, but the Coffeys say they have had difficulty adjusting to having it "It was odd, kinda, at the start, but we're getting used to it," Cecile Coffey said. The headline that Ralph B. Miner of the Powell Valley Electric Coop put on the article he wrote about the Coffeys for The Tennessee Magazine, a publication of the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association said, "We thought we had them all but not quite!" He explained: "It's hard to believe that anyone could have lived in this area all this time and just now have had electric power connected into their home but it's true," he wrote. But it's not far-fetched to Cecile Coffey, who reared three children in the house with no electricity. "We just got used to not having it," she said. "But we could have had it along time ago." She went on to explain that a man who had property next to theirs would not sign for power lines to cross his land. "A man came through here years ago and Rufus signed, but that man ,
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Coffey, Rufus Kyle, age 82 of Thorn Hill TN was born May 14, 1912 departed this life October 5, 1994 at the Jefferson Memorial Hospital. He was the son of the late Rev.Berry W. and Mary Jane (Sheffield) Coffey. He was preceded in death by one sister and four brothers. He professed faith in Christ an joined the Oak Hill Baptist Church January 6, 1925 where he remained a member until death. He was one of the singing leader of Oak Hill for many years. He served as church clerk from September, 1953 to September 1987. Survivors included his wife, Cecil (Dalton) Coffey of Thorn Hill, daughters Joanna Dalton of Bean Station, Audrey Bank of Thorn Hill, son, Alvin Coffey of Bean Station, 7 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral service were held Tuesday Oct 8, 1994 at Oak Hill Church with Jack Free and Rev. Bill Dalton officiating. Singers were the Liberty Quartet. Burial in the Coffey Cemetery in Thorn Hill Sadly missed by wife and family.
After 45 years in home, couple adds luxury electricity By JONI MILLS The Middles boro Daily News THORN HILL, Tenn. - Thomas A. Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879. Cecile and Rufus Coffey got to turn on the first one in their home in 1985, That's when the Coffeys first got electricity, the basic convenience of modern Ufe that most of us take for granted. Having seen the light in their home for the first time this spring, the Coffeys say some of the new things have changed their lives, but many things will always be the .same. Electricity was installed in the 100-year-old, square-log Coffey home set in the foothills of Clinch Mountain in Grainger County just a few months ago. But Cecile Coffey says she will cook on her Knox woodstove "till it burns out," and the house, which soon will be geting weatherboard "to close up some of them cracks in the logs," still will be heated with coal during the winter. "I like my refrigerator more than r f d.-'JZ i ' rf Ccilc and Rufus Coffey poe with tr elecliicol meter om their eentwy-oW lo$ home. (APbserprato) anything," she said, looking back at all the newfangled changes. "I've got a lot of things I didn't have before because you couldn't use 'em without electricity." The Coffeys now have a television set, which was bought by their daughter, and such electrified gadgets as a crock pot and coffee maker. "The kids have been buying us all kinds of stuff they couldn't buy us before, " she said. When Cecile Coffey was asked what he liked best about now having electricity, he replied: "The lights. It's a lot more handier than it was with kerosene lamps." Most of us probably wouldn't know what to do without electricity, but the Coffeys say they have had difficulty adjusting to having it "It was odd, kinda, at the start, but we're getting used to it," Cecile Coffey said. The headline that Ralph B. Miner of the Powell Valley Electric Coop put on the article he wrote about the Coffeys for The Tennessee Magazine, a publication of the Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association said, "We thought we had them all but not quite!" He explained: "It's hard to believe that anyone could have lived in this area all this time and just now have had electric power connected into their home but it's true," he wrote. But it's not far-fetched to Cecile Coffey, who reared three children in the house with no electricity. "We just got used to not having it," she said. "But we could have had it along time ago." She went on to explain that a man who had property next to theirs would not sign for power lines to cross his land. "A man came through here years ago and Rufus signed, but that man ,
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