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James C Coker

8 Aug 1877 – 29 Oct 1963

Birth	8 Aug 1877
Death	29 Oct 1963
Cemetery	Elmore City Cemetery Elmore City , Garvin County , Oklahoma , USA
Added by	David Hawk on 25 Jul 2013
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76502333

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James Seaborn Monroe Coker married Panola McClanahan on September 21, 1895, in Delta County, Texas. ******************************************************************* OBITUARY FROM THE PAULS VALLEY ENTERPRISE, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, Thursday, October 31, 1963 J. C. COKER, PIONEER, DIES J. C. Coker, 86, a pioneer resident of Garvin county, died Wednesday night at his home in Pauls Valley. He lived most of his life in the Elmore City area. He was born Aug. 8, 1877 in Texas and moved to Fort Towson, Okla., in 1901. He came to Garvin county in 1910 and was a farmer and stockman in the Elmore City area until he retired in 1954. He lived in Lawton from 1956 until last March when he moved to Pauls Valley. He lived at 612 East Charles in Pauls Valley at time of his death. He was a member of the First Baptist church in Elmore City. Funeral services will be in the Elmore City First Baptist church at 3 p.m. Saturday with Rev. James V. Gray of Oklahoma City, former pastor of the church, officiating. Burial will be in the Elmore City cemetery under direction of Vaughn Funeral Home. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Panola Coker; two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Beaty of Pauls Valley and Mrs. Golden Buzbee of Lawton; three sons, Clyde of Upland, Calif., Chester of Baldwin Park, Calif., and Gervis of Lexington, Okla.; two brothers, W. D. Coker of Sulphur Springs, Texas, and Henry Coker of Fort Towson; 18 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.

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Family

Parents

• Lenard Ferguson Coker 1820–1894
• Rebecca Jane Smith Coker 1845–1927

Spouse

• Panola McClanahan Coker 1880–1970

Siblings

• William Martin Coker 1848–1916
• Lenard Elizabeth "Lennie" Coker Parker 1869–1951
• Mary Jane "Mollie" Coker Bunch 1871–1941
• William Denton "Bud" Coker 1873–1967
• Cornelia Frances Coker Patterson 1875–1956
• Burse Eliza Coker Patterson 1878–1943
• Henry Haskell Coker 1882–1965
• J. E. "Duff" Coker 1884–1924

Children

• Myrtie Jane Coker Beaty 1896–1993
• Clyde Earl Coker 1903–1982
• Golden L. Coker Buzbee 1906–1968
• Opal Audrey Coker Dixon 1909–1963
• Chester James Coker 1913–1975
• Gervis Robert Coker 1916–2003
• Curtis Herbert Coker 1919–1935

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