- Date Of Birth: March 29, 1931
- Date Of Death: April 5, 2019
- State: Indiana
Rev. Dennis Lee Coffman passed away peacefully at the IU Health Hospice House on Friday, April 5, 2019 surrounded by his loving family. Lee was born in Gosport, Indiana on March 29, 1931 to Ellis Casey and Ella J. Coffman.
Lee grew up on a farm in Monrovia, Indiana with loving foster parents, Dalbert and Leon Lewis. He started Bible College in Corpus Christie, Texas at the age of 16. He was a traveling evangelist when he met his loving first wife, Katherine Graves Coffman. He pastored his first church in Illinois before coming to Bloomington, Indiana. He then pastored Henderson Street Church, which later became Apostolic Bible Church for 39 years. He enjoyed hunting and fishing trips along with his many traveling vacations.
Lee is survived by a sister, Sharolyn (Bob) Barron and their children, also surviving are Lee’s children, Dwight (Cathy) Coffman and Mark (Jane) Coffman; four grandchildren; Duane (Sarah) Coffman, Tiffany (Nate) Douglas, Priscilla (Jim) Davidson, Chad (Jenny) Coffman, and fifteen great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mary Katherine Coffman and his second wife, Mattie Coffman, daughter Deborah Coffman, sisters, Ruth James, Betty Quackenbush, Louise Potter, and brother Benjamin Coffman, and great-granddaughter, Cailee Coffman.
