Claude "Mike" Coffman

CLAUDE MIKE COFFMAN
CLAUDE MARK "MIKE" COFFMAN OF FARMINGTON, MISSOURI WAS BORN SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1951 AT SHIRLEY, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE ELIZABETH JANE (MONTGOMERY) COFFMAN AND CLAUDE COFFMAN. MIKE DIED ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2000 AT THE MINERAL AREA MEDICAL CENTER IN FARMINGTON, MISSOURI AT THE AGE OF FORTY-EIGHT YEARS, NINE MONTHS AND SIX DAYS.
MIKE IS SURVIVED BY HIS LOVING FATHER, CLAUDE COFFMAN; TWO BROTHERS, JAMES H. COFFMAN AND WIFE NADINE OF CADET, MISSOURI, JOHN COFFMAN AND WIFE PATTY OF BELGRADE, MISSOURI; THREE SISTERS, JOYCE DECLUE AND HUSBAND BILL OF STEELVILLE, MISSOURI, JANICE ASBRIDGE OF POTOSI, MISSOURI AND MAGGIE HULST AND HUSBAND LARRY OF PARK HILLS, MISSOURI; TWO HALF BROTHERS, BILLY COFFMAN AND WIFE AMY OF TEXAS, BOBBY JOE COFFMAN AND WIFE RUTH OF SHIRLEY, MISSOURI; ONE STEP BROTHER, LARRY TURNEY AND WIFE MICHELLE OF SHIRLEY, MISSOURI, LOVING FRIEND, LELA COFFMAN AND THREE STEP CHILDREN OF FARMINGTON AND BY MANY NIECES, NEPHEWS, OTHER RELATIVES AND A HOST OF FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS MOTHER, MIKE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE BROTHER, LARRY JACK COFFMAN, ONE SISTER IBBIE SANG AND ONE STEP SISTER NANCY TURNEY.
MIKE ENJOYED WATCHING SUSPENSE MOVIES, ALWAYS KNOWING HOW EACH ONE ENDED BEFORE ANYONE ELSE. MIKE ALWAYS LOOKED FORWARD TO GOING OUT ON THE PONTOON BOAT TO FISH AND BAR B QUE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
MIKE LOVED TO SPEND TIME TRAVELING THROUGH FARMINGTON VISITING WITH HIS MANY FRIENDS, THEY EACH HELD A VERY DEAR PLACE IN HIS HEART.
VISITATION WAS HELD SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2000, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2000, AT 10:00 A.M. AT THE CHAPEL WITH REVEREND MELVIN REED OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN PALMER CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, LARRY HOLST, LEROY HOLST, COREY CAWVEY, BRUCE HEAD, BILL DECLUE, ERIC DECLUE, JASON DECLUE AND LARRY TURNEY.