St. Clair County Obits

HAROLD L. COONES
March 11, 1922 - July 10, 2008

Reser Funeral Home & Davis-Miller Funeral Home
Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw

Harold Levi Coones, age 86, of Warsaw, passed away Thursday, July 10, 2008, at the Golden Valley Memorial Hospital in Clinton. He was born on March 11, 1922, in Benton County, Missouri, the son of Benjamin and Pearl Fern Johnston Coones. He was raised in Benton County on Z highway and lived his retirement years about a mile further down on his 154 acres called Coones Crossing.

On October 5, 1942, he was inducted into the United States Army, serving during World War II seeing action in four major battles. He was honorably discharged on October 25, 1945.

In 1948 he was married to Veneda Faye Coke Anglin. They made their home around Appleton City and Montrose where Harold was a coal miner, working a total of 44 years in the coal mines He was employed by Pittsburg and Mid-Way Coal Mines of Appleton City. His work took them to Kentucky where they lived until he retired from P & M Colonial Coal Mines and they returned to their vacation cabin on Z highway where they made their home.

Harold attended Cedar Grove Baptist Church where his parents worshiped before him.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Faye Coones, a daughter Wanita Adams, son, William Anglin I, his parents, three brothers, Walter Coones, Frank Ervine Coones, and Olin Coones, a sister, Noy Mantoyna, a great-grandson, John F. Foster and a great-granddaughter, Leslie Trotter, two great-great-grandchildren, Sarena and Alicia Martinez, and three nephews, Kenneth Coones, Ray Coones, and Jim Maupin.

Surviving are four children, Norman Lee Coones of Dawson Springs, Kentucky, and Patricia Ann Coones Foster of Warsaw, Lowell Anglin of Madisonville, Kentucky and Mary Purdy of Clinton, 19 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren, 11 great-great-grandchildren, a brother, Norman Coones of Clinton, other relatives and friends.

Funeral services for Harold L. Coones will be at 2:00 P.M., Sunday, July 13, 2008, at Reser Funeral Home, Warsaw. Burial will be in National Cemetery near Warsaw. Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8:00 P.M., at the Reser Funeral Home. Family suggest memorials contributions be made to the Benton County Food Pantry in care the funeral home. Messages of condolences may be left on-line at www.reserfuneralhome.com.