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Obituary- Coe, Floyd

Floyd Leonard Coe

ROSSVILLE -- Floyd Leonard Coe, 75, Rossville, died Tuesday, March 16, 1993, at a Topeka hospital.

Mr. Coe had been custodian at Corning, Dover and Rossville schools from 1956 to 1981. He was an Army veteran of World War II, having served in the Pacific Theatre.

He was born July 3, 1917, at Centralia, the son of William Leonard and Lorine Rachel Shaefer Coe. He was graduated from Corning Rural High School in 1935. He moved from Corning to Dover in 1966, then to Rossville in 1970.

Mr. Coe was a member and past noble grand of Dover Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 590 in Dover and a member of Jimmie Lillard Post No. 31 of the American Legion in Rossville.

He was married to Nettie F. Tefft May 10, 1938, at Erie. She survives. A daughter, Frances Leona “Fran” Coe, died July 15, 1990.

Other survivors include a daughter, Rachel E. Ray, Augusta; four sons, Leonard E. Coe, Platteville, Colo., Edward N. Coe, Huntington, Ark., Dale L. Coe, at home, and William “David” Coe, Topeka; two brothers, Russel Coe, Salina, and Glen Coe, Riverside, Calif.; 13 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 2 p.m. followed by I.O.O.F. services conducted by Dover lodge Saturday at Parker-Price Mortuary in Topeka. Military graveside honors will be conducted by Arthur L. Mills Post No. 37 of the American Legion of Corning in Centralia Cemetery. Mr. Coe will lie in state after 8 a.m. Friday at the mortuary where family and friends will meet from 7 until 8 p.m. Friday. Memorial contributions may be made to Kansa Odd Fellows Eye Bank in care of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, 39th and Rainbow, Kansas City, Kan., 66103.

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