Audrey Pulling

PARMA, Mo. -- Audrey Marcella Pulling, 96, died Sept. 14, 2017, at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter.

Born July 11, 1921, near Essex, daughter of the late Otto and Edna Ruth Zile Coffey, she had lived in Essex until 1959 when she moved to Parma. She had been a member of the First Baptist Church in Parma where she had taught training union, was Sunday school director, adult director for and a member of the W.M.U at the church. She graduated from Southeast Missouri State University and was a elementary school teacher for 39 years, teaching in Stoddard County and New Madrid County. She was a member of the Parma Civic Club for Women, M.S.T.A. and N.R.T.A.

On Aug. 7, 1943, in Piggott, Ark., she married Ivan L. Pulling, who preceded her in death on Feb. 3, 2016.

She was also preceded in death by one brother, Curt Coffey; and two sisters, Loretta Mouser and Geneva Coffey.

Surviving are one son and a daughter-in-law, Stanley and Tonja Pulling of Mountain View; one brother, Lewis "Bud" Coffey of Dexter; and three sisters, Martha Tucker of Grayridge, Opal Short of Neelyville and Jean Isbell of Dexter; and one granddaughter and one great-grandson.

Visitation is from noon until service time at 1 p.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church in Parma with the Rev. E.D. Doss of Martin, Tenn., officiating.

Burial will follow in the Missouri Veteran's Cemetery in Bloomfield.

Watkins & Sons Funeral Service of Dexter is in charge of arrangements.