Bradford County Telegraph, Starke, Florida
Friday, March 21, 1947
RITES WEDNESDAY FOR RUSSELL COLEMAN
Funeral services for Russell I. Coleman, 54, who died Monday of pneumonia in the Shadycrest hospital here, were held Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the gravesite in Swift Creek Cemetery near Lake Butler. The Rev. Willie Crews officiated and the DeWitt C. Jones’ Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Coleman resided three miles south of Starke, and at the time of his last illness was employed as a service station attendant by Prescott Gill. During the period of activity at Camp Blanding, he was a carpenter there. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
He was born in Baker County. He is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Letty Mann, Mrs. Lowell Yarbrough, Mrs. M. Alexander, and Miss Ruby Lee Coleman, all of Lake Butler, and Mrs. J. W. Mikell, Jr. of Branford, and by two sisters, Mrs. Arrie Denmark, of Plant City, and Mrs. Effie Sipperly, of Tampa.
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GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF:
William Russell Hightower
Friday, March 21, 1947
RITES WEDNESDAY FOR RUSSELL COLEMAN
Funeral services for Russell I. Coleman, 54, who died Monday of pneumonia in the Shadycrest hospital here, were held Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the gravesite in Swift Creek Cemetery near Lake Butler. The Rev. Willie Crews officiated and the DeWitt C. Jones’ Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Coleman resided three miles south of Starke, and at the time of his last illness was employed as a service station attendant by Prescott Gill. During the period of activity at Camp Blanding, he was a carpenter there. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
He was born in Baker County. He is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Letty Mann, Mrs. Lowell Yarbrough, Mrs. M. Alexander, and Miss Ruby Lee Coleman, all of Lake Butler, and Mrs. J. W. Mikell, Jr. of Branford, and by two sisters, Mrs. Arrie Denmark, of Plant City, and Mrs. Effie Sipperly, of Tampa.
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GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF:
William Russell Hightower
Bradford County Telegraph, Starke, Florida
Friday, March 21, 1947
RITES WEDNESDAY FOR RUSSELL COLEMAN
Funeral services for Russell I. Coleman, 54, who died Monday of pneumonia in the Shadycrest hospital here, were held Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the gravesite in Swift Creek Cemetery near Lake Butler. The Rev. Willie Crews officiated and the DeWitt C. Jones’ Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Coleman resided three miles south of Starke, and at the time of his last illness was employed as a service station attendant by Prescott Gill. During the period of activity at Camp Blanding, he was a carpenter there. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
He was born in Baker County. He is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Letty Mann, Mrs. Lowell Yarbrough, Mrs. M. Alexander, and Miss Ruby Lee Coleman, all of Lake Butler, and Mrs. J. W. Mikell, Jr. of Branford, and by two sisters, Mrs. Arrie Denmark, of Plant City, and Mrs. Effie Sipperly, of Tampa.
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GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF:
William Russell Hightower
Friday, March 21, 1947
RITES WEDNESDAY FOR RUSSELL COLEMAN
Funeral services for Russell I. Coleman, 54, who died Monday of pneumonia in the Shadycrest hospital here, were held Wednesday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the gravesite in Swift Creek Cemetery near Lake Butler. The Rev. Willie Crews officiated and the DeWitt C. Jones’ Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Coleman resided three miles south of Starke, and at the time of his last illness was employed as a service station attendant by Prescott Gill. During the period of activity at Camp Blanding, he was a carpenter there. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
He was born in Baker County. He is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Letty Mann, Mrs. Lowell Yarbrough, Mrs. M. Alexander, and Miss Ruby Lee Coleman, all of Lake Butler, and Mrs. J. W. Mikell, Jr. of Branford, and by two sisters, Mrs. Arrie Denmark, of Plant City, and Mrs. Effie Sipperly, of Tampa.
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GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF:
William Russell Hightower
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