Obituary

Funeral services for Benton D. "Chief" Coe, 75, will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Lemons Funeral Home with the Rev. Drew Travis, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Plainview Memorial Park under the direction of Lemons Funeral Home. He died Friday, March 25, 2005, in a Hale Center nursing facility. He was born March 18, 1930, in Estacado in Crosby County to John and Irene Benton Coe. The family moved to Plainview when he graduated in the class of 1947. He attended Abilene Christian College where he played basketball. He worked as a home builder in Plainview. Survivors include two daughters, Suzanne Coyle and Nancy Lee Donaldson, both of Dallas; a son, Colin Coe of Austin; one brother, John G. Coe Jr. of Dallas; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. His parents preceded him in death.