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1935
C to F
Coffman, Ella
Mann;
Coffman,
Ella
Mann
Mrs. Ella
Mann Coffman, 62, a native of Elkhart,
who since
1901 had been a resident of Vineland,
Ont., died
at her home last Saturday, and burial took place at Vineland on
Tuesday.
The funeral
was attended by a number of relatives from Elkhart
and Goshen.
Mrs.
Coffman was the wife of Bishop Samuel Frederick Coffman, also a former
resident
of Elkhart. They went to Vineland in 1901, shortly after their
marriage.
Surviving
beside the husband, who is head of the Mennonite Church in his
district, are
the following children: John, now a student at Goshen college; Barbara,
who was
a librarian at that college four years prior to her return to Vineland
last
Christmas because of ill health; Ellen, now in nurses' training at the
Mennonite hospital at La Junta, Colo., and Lena and David at the
parental
home. There also survive the following
brothers and sisters: Rufus K. Mann of Comins,
Mich., Mrs. B. B. King of Elida,
Ohio, and George Mann, Mrs. A. E.
Stauffer,
all of Elkhart.
Mr. and
Mrs. Stauffer, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon David, Mrs.
Harry
Berkey, Mrs. Saloma Mann, Mr. and Mrs. George Mann, Mrs. Levi Mann and
Cleo and
Earl Mann, all of Elkhart,
attended the funeral.
Mrs.
Coffman, who was the daughter of Christopher and Magdalena Mann, was
born Jan.
1, 1873, in Elkhart. She lived here until young womanhood, and
then went to Chicago
to be a worker in a Mennonite mission, with which she was connected up
to the
time of her marriage to Mr. Coffman.
Obituary:
The Elkhart Truth, (Indiana)
- 1935
Submitted
by: Mona Mann
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