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Author: Lace_Lynch
Surnames: Swain, Calhoun, Coleman, Cass
Classification: obituary
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CAMPBELL, Ohio - Services will be Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at noon at Mt. Zion Baptist
Church for Mrs. Evelyn Coleman, 72, who departed this life Sunday, April 5, 2009, at the
Piedmont-Fayette Hospital in Fayetteville, Ga.
Mrs. Coleman was born Sept. 21, 1936 in Talladega, Alabama a daughter of Wren and Lizzie
Swain Calhoun.
She was a graduate of Westside Senior High School in Alabama. She had been employed with
General Motors in Lordstown, Ohio for 26 years, retiring in 1998. She was a faithful
member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and its Deaconess Ministry.
She leaves to cherish her precious memory, her beloved husband, Willie C., whom she
married Feb. 5, 1957; a son, Kenneth T. (Callie) Coleman of Youngstown; two daughters,
Susan E. (Karen) Coleman of Atlanta and Helen D. Coleman-Taylor of Childersburgh, Ala.;
eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; five sisters, Elizabeth Cooksey, Ophelia
(Wally) Weems and Shirley A. (Fred) Jones, all of Columbus, Ohio; Edna-Wayne Calhoun of
Atlanta and Patricia (Paul) Cass of Birmingham, Ala.; three brothers, Wren (Amanda)
Calhoun Jr. of Talladega, John D. (Bernadine) Calhoun of Atlanta and Timothy Calhoun of
Birmingham; and a host of family and friends.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her son, Gerald; three brothers, Willie
S., Napoleon and Booze McKerry Calhoun; and a great-grandson.
Friends may call Tuesday from 11 a.m. to noon at the church.
Arrangements entrusted to the L. E. Black, Phillips & Holden Funeral Home of
Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown Vindicator
Mahoning County, Ohio
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