JOSEPH DILLER COYNER
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT
WAS PRISONER OF WAR DURING WWII
Joseph Diller Coyner, 88, of Red Bank, died on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005.
Mr. Coyner was born in Waynesboro, VA. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot assigned to the 8th Air Force, 388th Bomb Group. During his third bombing mission, to Berlin on April 29, 1944, his aircraft was severely damaged. Mr. Coyner and his crew were taken prisoner by the German Army after crash-landing in Belgium. He was liberated by Gen. George Patton on April 29, 1945. He was a Purple Heart recipient.
Mr. Coyner was employed by DuPont prior to and after the war and retired in 1979.
He was preceded in death by a son, Samuel Glenn Coyner in 1995.
He is survived by his wife, Becky Coyner; three children, Joseph Michael (Sharon) Coyner, of Morrison, CO, Nancy (Terrel) Hennessee, of McDonald, TN, and Maj. Beverly (Rick) Causer, of Travis AFB, CA; four sisters, Nellie Harris and Mary Patterson, of Raphine, VA, Lucille Phillippi, of Staunton, VA, and Lillian Pinkham, of Clarkrange, TN; seven grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Red Bank Baptist Church with Dr. Fred Steelman and the Rev. Bert Jones officiating. Interment will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Chattanooga National Cemetery with full military honors.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in his memory to Red Bank Baptist Church, 4000 Dayton Blvd., Chattanooga, TN 37415.
The family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. Friday at Lane Funeral Home, Coulter Chapel, 601 Ashland Terrace.
The Chattanoogan -- Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee -- September 23, 2005 -- Friday.
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT
WAS PRISONER OF WAR DURING WWII
Joseph Diller Coyner, 88, of Red Bank, died on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005.
Mr. Coyner was born in Waynesboro, VA. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot assigned to the 8th Air Force, 388th Bomb Group. During his third bombing mission, to Berlin on April 29, 1944, his aircraft was severely damaged. Mr. Coyner and his crew were taken prisoner by the German Army after crash-landing in Belgium. He was liberated by Gen. George Patton on April 29, 1945. He was a Purple Heart recipient.
Mr. Coyner was employed by DuPont prior to and after the war and retired in 1979.
He was preceded in death by a son, Samuel Glenn Coyner in 1995.
He is survived by his wife, Becky Coyner; three children, Joseph Michael (Sharon) Coyner, of Morrison, CO, Nancy (Terrel) Hennessee, of McDonald, TN, and Maj. Beverly (Rick) Causer, of Travis AFB, CA; four sisters, Nellie Harris and Mary Patterson, of Raphine, VA, Lucille Phillippi, of Staunton, VA, and Lillian Pinkham, of Clarkrange, TN; seven grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Red Bank Baptist Church with Dr. Fred Steelman and the Rev. Bert Jones officiating. Interment will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Chattanooga National Cemetery with full military honors.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in his memory to Red Bank Baptist Church, 4000 Dayton Blvd., Chattanooga, TN 37415.
The family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. Friday at Lane Funeral Home, Coulter Chapel, 601 Ashland Terrace.
The Chattanoogan -- Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee -- September 23, 2005 -- Friday.
JOSEPH DILLER COYNER
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT
WAS PRISONER OF WAR DURING WWII
Joseph Diller Coyner, 88, of Red Bank, died on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005.
Mr. Coyner was born in Waynesboro, VA. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot assigned to the 8th Air Force, 388th Bomb Group. During his third bombing mission, to Berlin on April 29, 1944, his aircraft was severely damaged. Mr. Coyner and his crew were taken prisoner by the German Army after crash-landing in Belgium. He was liberated by Gen. George Patton on April 29, 1945. He was a Purple Heart recipient.
Mr. Coyner was employed by DuPont prior to and after the war and retired in 1979.
He was preceded in death by a son, Samuel Glenn Coyner in 1995.
He is survived by his wife, Becky Coyner; three children, Joseph Michael (Sharon) Coyner, of Morrison, CO, Nancy (Terrel) Hennessee, of McDonald, TN, and Maj. Beverly (Rick) Causer, of Travis AFB, CA; four sisters, Nellie Harris and Mary Patterson, of Raphine, VA, Lucille Phillippi, of Staunton, VA, and Lillian Pinkham, of Clarkrange, TN; seven grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Red Bank Baptist Church with Dr. Fred Steelman and the Rev. Bert Jones officiating. Interment will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Chattanooga National Cemetery with full military honors.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in his memory to Red Bank Baptist Church, 4000 Dayton Blvd., Chattanooga, TN 37415.
The family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. Friday at Lane Funeral Home, Coulter Chapel, 601 Ashland Terrace.
The Chattanoogan -- Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee -- September 23, 2005 -- Friday.
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT
WAS PRISONER OF WAR DURING WWII
Joseph Diller Coyner, 88, of Red Bank, died on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005.
Mr. Coyner was born in Waynesboro, VA. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a B-17 pilot assigned to the 8th Air Force, 388th Bomb Group. During his third bombing mission, to Berlin on April 29, 1944, his aircraft was severely damaged. Mr. Coyner and his crew were taken prisoner by the German Army after crash-landing in Belgium. He was liberated by Gen. George Patton on April 29, 1945. He was a Purple Heart recipient.
Mr. Coyner was employed by DuPont prior to and after the war and retired in 1979.
He was preceded in death by a son, Samuel Glenn Coyner in 1995.
He is survived by his wife, Becky Coyner; three children, Joseph Michael (Sharon) Coyner, of Morrison, CO, Nancy (Terrel) Hennessee, of McDonald, TN, and Maj. Beverly (Rick) Causer, of Travis AFB, CA; four sisters, Nellie Harris and Mary Patterson, of Raphine, VA, Lucille Phillippi, of Staunton, VA, and Lillian Pinkham, of Clarkrange, TN; seven grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Red Bank Baptist Church with Dr. Fred Steelman and the Rev. Bert Jones officiating. Interment will be at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Chattanooga National Cemetery with full military honors.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in his memory to Red Bank Baptist Church, 4000 Dayton Blvd., Chattanooga, TN 37415.
The family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. Friday at Lane Funeral Home, Coulter Chapel, 601 Ashland Terrace.
The Chattanoogan -- Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee -- September 23, 2005 -- Friday.
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