Violet Lashley Coffey, age 82 of passed away on February 8, 2018 at Truman Lake Manor in Lowry City, MO.  Memorial services will be 1:00PM, Friday, March 2, 2018 at Vansant-Mills Funeral Chapel, Clinton with inurnment following in Englewood Cemetery, Clinton.  Memorial contributions can be made to the Violet Coffey Memorial Fund and may be left in care of Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton.  Condolences and fond memories may be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com .

From her birth in DesArc, MO on November 3, 1935 to her death on Thursday, Violet nourished people around her with Love, Faith, Prayer, and Music.  She was a member of Souls Harbor Church in Tightwad, MO. where she played the guitar and loved to sing.  She wrote/published a book "God Made Me Funny" because God truly made her a funny lady.  From April 1985 to 1998 Violet was a rural mail carrier for Chilhowee and Leeton, MO. and a bus driver before that near St. Joseph, MO.

She is preceded in death by her late husband David Coffey, Arthur Lashley (father), Nancy Lashley (mother), Vesta Lashley (sister), Galena Schoonover (sister), Victor Lashley (brother), Amos Lashley (brother), Vernon Lashley (brother),  Fern Bowman (sister), Ray Lashley (brother), and Eileen Southard (sister).

She is survived by Lilly Price (sister) of Ironton, MO, daughter Patsy Easter and husband Dennis of Oxnard, CA., son David Coffey and wife Diane of San Antonio, TX., daughter Brenda Green of Clinton, MO., daughter Mary Lynn Cordova Dysart of Clinton, MO. son Marc Coffey of Clinton, MO., and Joel Coffey and wife Tracy of Clinton, MO.  Violet had 16 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren and was proud of each and every one of them.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton, Missouri.