COLEMAN, James - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Covington - James Coleman, 73, former postmaster at Perrysville, died at 1 a.m. today in Mercy Hospital at Urbana, Ill. Coleman was a member of the Perrysville School Board that started building plans for North Vermillion High School. He was a rural mail carrier for 30 years. He was born in Covington on March 12, 1901, a son of Frank and Anna Cadman Coleman. He was married to Verna Marie Wilson. She died Oct. 25, 1972. He was married to Ruth Shuff Carwile on Oct. 5, 1973. She survives. Other survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Luther (Mildred) Mycroft of Covington and Mrs. Gordon (Marjorie) Allen of Reynolds; two step-sons, Robert Carwile of Potomac, Ill., and James Carwile of Covington; a step-daughter, Mrs. Larry (Fran) Bumpus of Covington; five brothers, Claude of Covington, Mont of Perrysville, Robert of Crawfordsville, and Frank and Donald of Rt. 1, Covington; two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Anderson of Rt. 1, Covington, and Mrs. Grace Wilson of Rt. 1, Perrysville; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren, and 12 step-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother and a daughter. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in Bodine & Shelby Funeral Home here with the Rev. Ernest Moore officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Wednesday.