Coy was born in Stigler, Oklahoma on September 7, 1946 to Omar and Rachel (Faries) Mullens. Shortly after his birth, Coy and his family moved to Vinson, Oklahoma where he grew up and attended school before graduating from Hollis High School in 1965. While in school, Coy played basketball and loved racing and working on cars.

In April of 1966, Coy joined the United States Army where he was rewarded a Purple Heart, while serving as a sniper during the Vietnam War. In 1968, Coy married Barbara Tarpley and they had two children together, Terry and Rachelle. Coy worked as a ginner in Oklahoma and Texas before going to work for the Oklahoma Highway Department in 1983, where he worked for twenty five years before his retirement. In his free time, Coy enjoyed trading guns, driving around with his dog “Baby Girl” and most of all he loved spending time with his grandchildren, family and friends.

Preceded in death by his parents.

Coy is survived by two children, Terry Mullens and wife Shelly of Mangum and Rachelle Beasley and husband Steve of Springtown, Texas; ten grandchildren, Heath Mitchell and wife Eileen, Elissa Mitchell, Jared Mitchell and wife Brooke, Halie Mullens, Kyle Mullens, Kylie Mullens, Shacie Mullens, Ty Mullens, Laura Silva and husband Jesse and Cody Beasley; one sister Linda Gail David and husband Jack along with many more relatives and close friends.

Graveside services for Coy Dale Mullens will be at 2:00 P.M. Friday, October 25, 2013 at Independence Cemetery with Larry Reynolds and Pastor Shawn Johnson officiating and under the direction of Harmon County Funeral Home.

Online tributes may be made to the family at HarmonCountyFuneral.com

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