Phyllis J. Coffin, age 84, died on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, at her home in Duluth, Minnesota.
Phyllis Jean Stacy was born December 10, 1934, near Somers, Iowa. She graduated from Storm Lake High School, received a two-year teaching certificate from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, and a B.A. in Education from Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. She married her high school sweetheart, Allen H. Coffin, on June 13, 1957. She taught in the Rockwell City, Iowa, elementary schools for 4 1/2 years, and served as a homemaker for the last 62 years of her life.
The couple raised two children, Stacy Allen Coffin of Duluth, Minnesota, and Cora Jean Knutson of Hermantown, Minnesota. During her lifetime Mrs. Coffin has lived in Lohrville, Storm Lake, Spencer, Rockwell City, and Des Moines, Iowa, and in St. Anthony, Golden Valley, Hermantown, and Duluth, Minnesota. The couple also have a winter home in Tucson, Arizona.
Mrs. Coffin is survived by her loving husband, Allen Coffin; their two children and their spouses, Stacy Coffin and Shelley Breyen, and Cora and Jeff Knutson, and five grandchildren. She will also be missed and remembered by many friends, neighbors, and relatives.
Mrs. Coffin was active in church affairs in Duluth and in Tucson. She enjoyed her family, reading and travel.
Interment is to be in the Clinton-Garfield Cemetery near Rolfe, Iowa.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers, memorial gifts be made in Mrs. Coffin's name to Trinity Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona, or to the Paralyzed Veterans of America.