Date of birth: 20 Jul 1916 Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 22 Jun 1968 Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
Source: Franklin Evening Star, Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, June 24, 1968
A. LEROY COFFMAN
Funeral services for Arthur Leroy
Coffman, of the Hurricane community,
and prominent in Boy Scout work, will
be conducted in the Vandivier-Parsley
Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon at
2 o'clock.
The services are to be in charge of
the Rev. John Hancock, pastor of the
Community Congregational Church, and
burial will take place in Forest Lawn
Memory Gardens.
Friends may call at the funeral home
at any time and are invited to attend the
rites. The family has requested in lieu
of flowers, donations be made to Boy
Scout Tribunal Fund, Central Indiana,
in care of Glen Hakes, R.R.1, Greenwood.
Mr. Coffman had been in declining
health for four and a half years and died
Saturday night at 6 o'clock in the Robert
W. Long Hospital at Indianapolis.
He was born July 20, 1916, in Johnson
County and his parents were Charles and
the late Ethel Hagan Coffman.
A resident of Johnson County his entire
life, Mr. Coffman had resided at Trafalgar,
Hopewell and the Hurricane communities.
He graduated from Trafalgar High School in
1935.
For 25 years, Mr. Coffman had been
employed at the Eli Lilly Laboratories in
Indianapolis.
He was a member of the Community
Congregational Church where he served as
deacon and was a Sunday school teacher,
and was a member of the Greenwood
Masonic Lodge. Active in Boy Scout work,
he had served in local and district work for
12 years. Mr. Coffman had won one of the
highest awards given to scout leaders.
On Nov. 25, 1936, he married Doris
Tilson in the Community Congregational
Church and four children were born to them.
The widow survives with three sons
and a daughter, Larry L. Coffman of Franklin;
Bruce Coffman, of San Francisco, Calif.;
Charles Coffman and Rebecca Coffman,
at home.
Also remaining are the father, of Trafalgar;
a brother, Ralph V. Coffman, of Whiteland;
and a sister, Mrs. Thomas (Catherine Opal)
Richards, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
His mother died April 17, 1968.
Submitted by Mark E. Wirey
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