Date of birth: 21 December 1910, Brown County, Indiana
Date of death: 28 February 1929, Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana
Source: Franklin Evening Star, Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, March 2, 1929
WELL KNOWN EDINBURG
YOUNG MAN IS CALLED
Wayne Coy, Age 18, Born in
Brown County - Funeral
Sunday Afternoon
EDINBURG, March 2. - Wayne
Coy, 18-year-old son and
second child of Wilbur and
Flossie Coy, passed away
at his home, on State Road
31, just at the edge of
Edinburg, Thursday after-
noon at 1:30.
Wayne had not been
feeling well for the past
month, but was able to be
up most of the time and
his condition was not con-
sidered serious until Thurs-
day morning about 10:30,
when he suddenly became
unconscious and death came
just four hours later.
He was born Dec. 21,
1910, in Brown County and
lived in the community in
which he was born until
about 18 months ago, when
he came to Edinburg with
his parents, who own and
operate a filling station
on State Road 31.
The past year he
has been employed at the
Swinn's sawmill, south-
east of Edinburg. He was
a member of New Bethel
Church in Brown County and
had been a faithful atten-
dant to the M.E. Sunday
school since the family
moved to Edinburg.
He leaves to mourn
for him the father and
mother; five brothers,
Virgil, Orvil, Kenneth,
Paul and Ervin; three
sisters, Ardith, of
Indianapolis; Ruth and
Pauline at home and two
grandparents, W. I. and
Eliza Coy; besides a
host of friends.
Funeral services
will be conducted at the
Methodist Church Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Burial will be made in
Rest Haven Cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Coy
will bury their second
born child, the first
death in the family, on
their twentieth wedding
anniversary.
Submitted by Mark Wirey
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