Coble, Richard M.

Miami, died early Saturday, Feb 19, 2000, at his home. He was 83. Mr. Coble was born Jan 12, 1917, to David Coble and Mattie Dobbins Coble, at Sherwin Kansas. He lived in Oswego Kansas, from June 1938 until 1957, when he moved to Miami. He had worked for Leo Galvin in the grocery store in Oswego and had formerly worked for the Army ammunition plant in Parsons Kansas. He was formerly a hard rock lead and zinc miner in the Picher Oklahoma mining field. He had been employed by the B.F. Goodrich Company from 1955 until his retirement in 1978 as a calender operator. He was a member of Northwest Baptist Church. He married Mary Amelia Gray in June of 1938. She died in March 1975. He married Wenonah Wilson on August 28, 1976, at Miami. Additional survivors include two sons, Fred Coble, Pittsburg Kansas, and Clifford Coble, Prairie Grove Arkansas; a step-son, Charles E. Wilson, Ft. Lauderdale Florida; four sisters, Dorothy Robison, Ruby Webb, and Laura May Frazee, all of Columbus Kansas, and Treva Bell, Holton Kansas; two brothers, Archie Coble, Miami, and Norman Coble, Greeley Colorado; seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. The service is 10 a.m. Wednesday, at the Northwest Baptist Church, with the Rev. Danny Mills officiating. Burial is in the City cemetery at Oswego Kansas. Pallbearers are G. A. Birkes, Mark Billings, Leslie Allen, Dean Bradley, Tandy Allen, and Robert Pittman. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 tonight at the Cooper-Althouse funeral Home, Miami.