Martha Coker

Thursday, March 6, 2003

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. - Martha M. Coker, 70, died March 4, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Born Aug. 14, 1932, in Wyatt, Mo., daughter of the late Walter and Mamie Housman, she was a member and Sunday school teacher at Trinity Assembly of God Church in Olive Branch.

In 1966, she married James Coker who survives of the home.

Other survivors include: three daughters, Bonnie Cole of Kevil, Ky., and Sandra Berry and Janet Rosson of Olive Branch; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her son, Ronnie Vinson on Dec. 26, 2002; and one brother, two sisters and one grandson.

Services were conducted at 11 a.m. today at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms. The Rev. Carl Hester, pastor of Trinity Assembly of God Church, officiated.

Burial followed in Oak Grove Cemetery near Charleston, Mo.