Arvid Van "Rip" Coggins^{[1, 2]}

1929 - 2014  (85 years)

• Name	Arvid Van "Rip" Coggins
  Born	24 Feb 1929
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Feb 2014	Newport Medical Center, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee   [3]
  Person ID	I79966	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2014

  
  

  Father	Ferman Rufus Coggins,   b. 28 Jan 1900,   d. 2 Dec 1958  (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Georgia Marie Ford,   b. Abt 1912,   d. 9 Oct 2001  (Age ~ 89 years)
  Married	1 Mar 1928
  Family ID	F29385	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Gladys Smith
  Married	1953
  Children	1. Janet Lee Coggins + 2. Jeffrey Andrew Coggins,   b. Abt 1959,   d. 12 Jan 2004  (Age ~ 45 years) + 3. Joel Bradley Coggins
  Family ID	F29388	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 25 Feb 2014 - Newport Medical Center, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 66. [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 14 Nov 2009. Mr. Lucas Richard Coggins obituary [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 28 Feb 2014. Arvid Van (Rip) Coggins died Tuesday, February 25, 2014, at Newport Medical Center surrounded by his family. A lifelong resident of Cocke County, he was born February 24, 1929. He was preceded in death by his parents Furman and Georgia Coggins, sister Valerie Ottinger, brother Lucas Coggins, and son Jeffery Coggins. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Gladys Coggins, and daughter, Jan Coggins, both of Parrottsville; his son Joel and daughter-in-law Yvette Coggins of Greeneville; daughter-in-law Nancy Oberti of Lebanon; grandchildren Jeremy and Christopher Coggins of Greeneville and Andy and Lauran Coggins of Lebanon; great-grandson Daniel Coggins of Greeneville; sister and brother-in-law Iva Lee and Gordon Denton of Parrottsville; sister Stephanie Banks of Newport; and several nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends from 5:00—7:00 p.m. at Forest Hills Baptist Church, Parrottsville, on Thursday, February 27, 2014, with a memorial service to follow at 7:00 p.m. Rev. Harold Ball and Rev. Alvin Watts will officiate. Memorials may be made to the Building Fund, Memorial Baptist Church, P. O. Box 1132, Newport, TN 37822.