Pauline Elizabeth Vardeman Coats

A funeral service is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 14, 2016, at Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors Sunset Chapel. Freddie Byrd will be conducting the service. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park.

Pallbearers will be Christopher Lynn Henson, Elvin Ray Henson, Ronnie Craig Coats, Dennis “Sonny” Matlock, Don Vardeman, and Freddie Moore. Honorary pallbearers include Jeffery Nicholas Beal, Andy Carroll Coats, Michael Ray Henson, Matthew Byers, Carl Wheeland, Timothy John Hart, and Henry McFaddin.

Pauline is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Carroll W. Coats; and brothers, Barney Dalton Vardeman and George Wayne Vardeman. She is surved by a sister-in-law, Lamerle Vardeman.

She is also survived by her son, Ronnie Joe Coats and wife Eula; daughters, Carol Coats-Beal and fiancé, William Edsel West, and Vicki Coats ; grandchildren, Ronnie Craig Coats and wife Nerrisa, Christie Boykin and husband Brian, Andy Carroll Coats and wife Stefanie, Jeffery Nicholas Beal and wife Kelcie, Christopher Lynn Henson, Michael Ray Henson, and Brandi Henson-Byers and fiancé, William Greer Hightower; great-grandchildren, Karli Coats, Kati Coats, Branden Boykin, Avery Boykin, Austin Coats, Aiden Coats, Brandon Asher-Henson, Christa Henson, Madeline Elizabeth Byers, and Landon Matthew Byers; numerous nieces and nephews; and many friends.

Pauline was a very friendly person who always greeted you with a smile and grace. She was always working on something and keeping busy. She had such tiny hands to get done all the work she did. She was a proud mother and a meticulous seamstress. Pauline always wore blue jeans and sweatshirts and looked good in it. She was known as a character and was always up to something. She loved to be a people watcher and could always find something that would make her heart laugh. She thought older people were funny and rarely admitted that she was one of them! Her favorite holidays were Christmas and Thanksgiving and her favorite foods were fried catfish, cherry cokes from Sonic and homemade yeast rolls. She was proud to be a housewife. That was her chosen profession and she was good at it. She made great deposits in her family’s life and they will be remembering her for a very long time.

The family wishes to give special thanks and appreciation to the staffs at Willowbrook Nursing Home and Accolade Hospice for the compassionate care they offered to their Mother during her time of need.

Visit www.CasonMonk-Metcalf.com to offer online memories and condolences. Arrangements are under the direction of Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors, located at 5400 North Street in Nacogdoches.