Clara Estella Kean Coffey was the elder of two daughters born to Judge William Francis Kean and his wife Alice A. Smith Kean of Wooster, Wayne Co., OH. She married George Nelson Coffey (1875-1967), Ph.D., in Wooster on April 22, 1914. Unable to have children, the couple adopted one son: William Nelson Coffey (b. 1921). Sadly, Clara Coffey succumbed to cancer at age thirty-six.
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Obituary
CLARA E. COFFEY DIES IN NIGHT
Passes Away at Family Home Following an Illness of Two Months.
Mrs. Clara E. Coffey, wife of George N Coffey, secretary and manager of The Wayne County Abstract Co., died at 1 o'clock this morning at the family home on N. Bever street.
Mrs Coffey, suffering a relapse in an ailment from which she had secured relief months ago, became bedfast late in November and gradually lost her strength, despite the best of medical and family care.
Clara E. Kean was born in Wooster January 9, 1889, a daughter of Judge and Mrs W F Kean. She attended Wooster public schools and was graduated from Wooster high school with the class of 1907. She attended Wooster college for three years and Ohio Wesleyan university for one year, graduating from Wooster with the degree of A B in 1911. Following her school work she taught school two years in Dalton.
In February, 1914 she was married in the Kean home on East Bowman street, to George N. Coffey, who was then in charge of Soil Survey work at the Wooster Experiment Station. In 1915 Mr and Mrs Coffey moved to Urbana, Ill., where Mr Coffey became state leader of county farm agents. They remained there until 1922 when they returned to Wooster when Mr Coffey accepted his present position here.
Mrs Coffey at the age of ten years, became a member of the M E church, and was active in church work. She was a member of Eastern Star lodge and of a number of the city's women's organizations.
She is survived by her husband and one son, William Nelson, aged four, her father and mother and one sister, Miss Frances Keen, of this city.
Funeral services will be held from the North Bever street home where the Kean and Coffey families reside, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Dr. Samuel Stewart. Friends are asked to omit flowers, this having been a special request of Mrs Coffey.
["Wooster Daily Record" (Wooster, OH), 26 January 1926, 3.]
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Obituary
CLARA E. COFFEY DIES IN NIGHT
Passes Away at Family Home Following an Illness of Two Months.
Mrs. Clara E. Coffey, wife of George N Coffey, secretary and manager of The Wayne County Abstract Co., died at 1 o'clock this morning at the family home on N. Bever street.
Mrs Coffey, suffering a relapse in an ailment from which she had secured relief months ago, became bedfast late in November and gradually lost her strength, despite the best of medical and family care.
Clara E. Kean was born in Wooster January 9, 1889, a daughter of Judge and Mrs W F Kean. She attended Wooster public schools and was graduated from Wooster high school with the class of 1907. She attended Wooster college for three years and Ohio Wesleyan university for one year, graduating from Wooster with the degree of A B in 1911. Following her school work she taught school two years in Dalton.
In February, 1914 she was married in the Kean home on East Bowman street, to George N. Coffey, who was then in charge of Soil Survey work at the Wooster Experiment Station. In 1915 Mr and Mrs Coffey moved to Urbana, Ill., where Mr Coffey became state leader of county farm agents. They remained there until 1922 when they returned to Wooster when Mr Coffey accepted his present position here.
Mrs Coffey at the age of ten years, became a member of the M E church, and was active in church work. She was a member of Eastern Star lodge and of a number of the city's women's organizations.
She is survived by her husband and one son, William Nelson, aged four, her father and mother and one sister, Miss Frances Keen, of this city.
Funeral services will be held from the North Bever street home where the Kean and Coffey families reside, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Dr. Samuel Stewart. Friends are asked to omit flowers, this having been a special request of Mrs Coffey.
["Wooster Daily Record" (Wooster, OH), 26 January 1926, 3.]
Clara Estella Kean Coffey was the elder of two daughters born to Judge William Francis Kean and his wife Alice A. Smith Kean of Wooster, Wayne Co., OH. She married George Nelson Coffey (1875-1967), Ph.D., in Wooster on April 22, 1914. Unable to have children, the couple adopted one son: William Nelson Coffey (b. 1921). Sadly, Clara Coffey succumbed to cancer at age thirty-six.
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Obituary
CLARA E. COFFEY DIES IN NIGHT
Passes Away at Family Home Following an Illness of Two Months.
Mrs. Clara E. Coffey, wife of George N Coffey, secretary and manager of The Wayne County Abstract Co., died at 1 o'clock this morning at the family home on N. Bever street.
Mrs Coffey, suffering a relapse in an ailment from which she had secured relief months ago, became bedfast late in November and gradually lost her strength, despite the best of medical and family care.
Clara E. Kean was born in Wooster January 9, 1889, a daughter of Judge and Mrs W F Kean. She attended Wooster public schools and was graduated from Wooster high school with the class of 1907. She attended Wooster college for three years and Ohio Wesleyan university for one year, graduating from Wooster with the degree of A B in 1911. Following her school work she taught school two years in Dalton.
In February, 1914 she was married in the Kean home on East Bowman street, to George N. Coffey, who was then in charge of Soil Survey work at the Wooster Experiment Station. In 1915 Mr and Mrs Coffey moved to Urbana, Ill., where Mr Coffey became state leader of county farm agents. They remained there until 1922 when they returned to Wooster when Mr Coffey accepted his present position here.
Mrs Coffey at the age of ten years, became a member of the M E church, and was active in church work. She was a member of Eastern Star lodge and of a number of the city's women's organizations.
She is survived by her husband and one son, William Nelson, aged four, her father and mother and one sister, Miss Frances Keen, of this city.
Funeral services will be held from the North Bever street home where the Kean and Coffey families reside, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Dr. Samuel Stewart. Friends are asked to omit flowers, this having been a special request of Mrs Coffey.
["Wooster Daily Record" (Wooster, OH), 26 January 1926, 3.]
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Obituary
CLARA E. COFFEY DIES IN NIGHT
Passes Away at Family Home Following an Illness of Two Months.
Mrs. Clara E. Coffey, wife of George N Coffey, secretary and manager of The Wayne County Abstract Co., died at 1 o'clock this morning at the family home on N. Bever street.
Mrs Coffey, suffering a relapse in an ailment from which she had secured relief months ago, became bedfast late in November and gradually lost her strength, despite the best of medical and family care.
Clara E. Kean was born in Wooster January 9, 1889, a daughter of Judge and Mrs W F Kean. She attended Wooster public schools and was graduated from Wooster high school with the class of 1907. She attended Wooster college for three years and Ohio Wesleyan university for one year, graduating from Wooster with the degree of A B in 1911. Following her school work she taught school two years in Dalton.
In February, 1914 she was married in the Kean home on East Bowman street, to George N. Coffey, who was then in charge of Soil Survey work at the Wooster Experiment Station. In 1915 Mr and Mrs Coffey moved to Urbana, Ill., where Mr Coffey became state leader of county farm agents. They remained there until 1922 when they returned to Wooster when Mr Coffey accepted his present position here.
Mrs Coffey at the age of ten years, became a member of the M E church, and was active in church work. She was a member of Eastern Star lodge and of a number of the city's women's organizations.
She is survived by her husband and one son, William Nelson, aged four, her father and mother and one sister, Miss Frances Keen, of this city.
Funeral services will be held from the North Bever street home where the Kean and Coffey families reside, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Dr. Samuel Stewart. Friends are asked to omit flowers, this having been a special request of Mrs Coffey.
["Wooster Daily Record" (Wooster, OH), 26 January 1926, 3.]
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