Paulette Coffey Tall Chief
1947-2005Rest
in peace,
beloved classmate
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From
the
newspaper:
Lawton,
Okla. — Wake services for Paulette Louise Coffey Tall Chief,
57, Shawnee, Okla., will be at 7 p.m. today at Deyo Mission
Church in Lawton. Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Friday
at First Indian Baptist Church in Shawnee, Okla. Burial will
be in Holdenville.
Mrs.
Tall Chief died Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2005, in Oklahoma City from
cancer.
She was
born Dec. 1, 1947, in Lawton, the daughter of Cheevers and
Rosetta Coffey. She received a bachelor's in management of
human resources from Oklahoma State University and a master's
in management of human resources from Southern Nazarene
University in Bethany, Okla.
Mrs.
Tall Chief received the Indian Woman of the Year Award in 1993
and Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2004.
She
married Bryan Morrow on April 24, 2004, in Albuquerque, N.M.
He died May 8, 2004.
Survivors include her parents, Dewey; two daughters, Carrie
Coffey, Lawrence, Kan., and Angela Goodfox, Shawnee, Okla.; a
son, Marty Thurman, Shawnee, Okla.; two brothers, Jesse
Coffey, Lawton, and James Coffey, Bartlesville; and three
grandchildren. |
