Patricia Hood Coffey

OZARK…Mrs. Patricia Hood Coffey, a resident of Ozark, died late Monday afternoon, November 24, 2025, at her home. She was 87.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, December 6, 2025, at Ridgecrest Baptist Church with Reverend Dr. Scott Thompson and Reverend Jim Hill officiating. Burial will follow in Westview Memorial Cemetery. Fuqua Bankston Funeral Home of Ozark is in charge of arrangements. The family will receive friends from 10:00 until 11:00 A.M. Saturday at the church.

Mrs. Coffey, daughter of the late John and Alma Ensor Hood of Cordova, was the sole survivor of her other siblings, Mary Draper, Bette Bell Pena, Martha Ann Fowler, and James Hood. Pat graduated from Cordova High School in Cordova, Alabama, enjoyed a short banking career at the First National Bank in Montgomery, then decided to prepare herself for the career she always knew was a “calling”, teaching. Graduating from Auburn University with Highest Honor and Mississippi State University with degrees in Secondary Education, she taught senior English at New Hope High School in Columbus, Mississippi for twenty years. Her impartiality, devotion to and inspiration from her students resulted in the continued mutual correspondence with many of them for decades after she moved to Ozark. She then taught junior English at Abbeville High School until her retirement.

After her retirement, she spent several enjoyable years traveling the world with her dear friend, Margaret Dobbs of Ozark or with family members. Each year she and her sisters and nieces, spent a week in the vacation home in Coosada, Alabama, an event which they called “sister week”. Pat always planned exciting jaunts, trips to find their roots in North Alabama, other trips to the archives to find records of their Danish ancestors, shopping sprees and making crafts of all kinds. Sister Bette always led the craft making and these crafts were displayed at the family reunions as they enjoyed the venison prepared by her brother, Jim, the hunter.

Pat loved family, good books, and friends. She enjoyed the beautiful flowers she planted in her yard, was an avid Auburn fan, and was deeply interested in politics and the news at both the national and international levels. She served as a Hospice volunteer for several years, enjoyed serving as public relations volunteer for Ridgecrest Baptist Church of Ozark, and for the Dale Mission Store in Ozark, Alabama. She shared a close relationship with the members of the Gladys Boswell Sunday School Class and was devoted to and deeply appreciative of her dear friend and former pastor, Jim Hill and his wife, Robin. Their ministry to her and her family in the declining years of Pat’s and Bill’s lives was a genuine example of Christ-like love, and she often referred to them as her “family”. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Thomas “Bill” Coffey.

Surviving relatives include her son, Mark Coffey (Latisha), Daleville; sister-in-law, Sandra Hood, Huntsville; nieces and nephews, David Bell, Huntsville, Laura Bowlin (Dan), Birmingham, Jeff Palmer (Cristina), Kennesaw, Georgia, and Melissa Bullard (Brad), Huntsville; special friends and caregiver, Reverend Jim Hill and his wife, Robin, Abbeville.