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Flora (Gochenour) Coffman

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Title

Flora (Gochenour) Coffman

Subject

Coffman, Flora Gochenour (1916-2022)

Description

Portrait of Flora (Gochenour) Coffman as a young woman.

Flora was born in Maurertown, the daughter of Levi and Susie Gochenour. She was one of nine children.

She married Harold Coffman (1916-1995) in 1938. While he served in the Civilian Public Service (CPS) during WWII, Flora lived in the Valley and raised their daughter, Phyllis Mae.

After his CPS service, they moved to the Washington, DC, area where they lived for thirty years. During that time, they had two more children, Janet Sue and Benjamin Walter Coffman.

After they retired, they moved back to the Shenandoah Valley where they spent the rest of their lives in the New Market area.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

Ca 1939
Labelled "1939" on box of plates.

Contributor

Identified by the subject herself and by her friend, Eva Cline.
Biographical information was compiled from public records.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Flora (Gochenour) Coffman appears with her husband in Morrison Studio Collection #004955.

Identifier

004222

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citation

Morrison Studio, “Flora (Gochenour) Coffman,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed April 30, 2024, http://archives.countylib.org/items/show/32667.

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