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Dorris Jane Sneed Coffee
© Enid News and Eagle
10-08-2009
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

Dorris J. COFFEE

Paradise Cemetery


Enid, OK — Graveside service for Dorris Jean Coffee, 78, of Enid, will be 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009, in Paradise Cemetery, Breckinridge. Chaplain AD Devore will officiate. Arrangements are under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home. Visitation will be 10-11 a.m. that morning at the funeral home.

Dorris Jean Sneed Coffee was born Jan. 16, 1931, in St. Louis, Mo., to William Lyman and Mahalia Emmaline (Smith) Sneed and died Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009.

Her younger years were spent in and around St. Louis and a little town, St. Francis, in the northeast corner of Arkansas. Jean grew up around horses, as her father was a trainer for and showed American-bred saddle horses in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas, even into Arkansas.

Jean met her husband-to-be, Marlon Coffee, in an amusement park in St. Louis in 1947, when she was 16. Then, on April 2, 1948, in St. Francis, Ark., they were married by her uncle, William Lyman Sneed, the Baptist minister. She lived with her parents and little sister while Marlon was in Germany; coming home to a new son, Marlon Jr. Through the following 50-plus years, they were blessed with five more boys and three girls, which was quite an impressive family for them.

During her life, Jean studied art, worked as an aide at 15 and through the years also worked at numerous restaurant jobs , receiving the “Waitress of the Month” award at Whiteman N.C.O. Club, banquet secretary at Holiday Inn, earned her GED at age 52, did clothes for military personnel to help out, as well as cleaning base housing.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; four grandparents; two sons; one grandson; and several aunts and uncles.

Jean is survived by her children, Marlon Jr., Robert, Linda, Chris, Tony, Sandra and Mahalia; stepdaughter, Thelma Jean Carson; 24 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Louise Camp of Ringold, Okla., and Nancy Dees of O’Fallon, Mo., as well as four nephews and two nieces.

Jean always tried to help all in her family and friends in any way she was able.

Condolences may be made to www.enidwecare.com.

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