EUNICE COATS PERRITT
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Oct. 16, 1925 - Oct. 4, 2013
Eunice Coats Perritt, 87, formerly of Atlanta, died peacefully in a Dallas nursing home Friday, Oct. 4, 2013.
She was born Oct. 16, 1925, to the late E. G. “Gid” and Daisy Coats in Mena, Ark. She was the sixth of seven children and went to school in Queen City. She survived polio as an infant and longed for the day she could run in heaven; she is now.
She was a loving, caring mother, sister, Mammaw and friend. She loved her family and fishing. She also collected ceramic frogs. She was a member of the Smyrna Baptist Church.
She is preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Oliver Andrew Perritt and her grandson, Mark Allen Blizzard.
She is survived by her four children, Donald and Martha Coats of Atlanta, Jane and Joe Blizzard of Atlanta, Judy Combs of Dallas and Jerrie and Curtis Russell of Palestine; seven grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren; two sisters, Lois Whittington of Atlanta and Irene Perkins Waters of Bivins.
Memorial services will be later.
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