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Eddie J Coffey

Funeral Services for Mr. Eddie Joe Coffey, 67, of Decatur, Alabama will be 1:00 PM Sunday at Bell Primitive Baptist Church with the Rev. James Coffey officiating.  The body will lie in repose one hour prior to service. Public viewing will be Saturday from 1:00 PM until 5:30 PM in the Reynolds Funeral Home Chapel.  

Eddie Joe Coffey was born February 25, 1954 in Trinity, Alabama to James Edward and Laura Mae Coffey. He departed this life on November 9, 2021 in the comfort of his home in Decatur, Alabama.

Joe dedicated his life to the Lord at an early age and joined Love Chapel CME Church where he remained an active faithful member for the duration of his life.

Joe attended West Morgan High School and entered into the Navy on March 30 1972 at the age of 18. He had various jobs throughout his lifetime but was best known as “The Fry Guy”. Joe was one of the original members of the gospel group “NC Stars”. On April 19th, 2013 Eddie Joe married his devoted wife, Jerita Pennington.

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Meet Eddie Coffey, one of Newfoundland's most popular singer/songwriters, who has paved the way for many artists through the years with his outstanding form of music, both singing and playing his button accordion. Eddie was bornand raised in Placentia Bay, Community of Cuslett, Newfoundland, where music was a way of life. His mother was a fine accordion player as well as his grandmother, and Eddie was taught to play the accordion by his motherwhen he was 10 years old. He left home at age 18to find work and went to Labradorto work in the Wabush mines. He worked there for 2 yearsand while there he played music at parties and wrotethe popular song, BLACK AROUND THE EYES.


He then went to Halifax, Nova Scotia to fish on the draggers for six years. On the draggers he would take his guitar and accordion, performing his music over the dragger radios in his spare time to the workers and other Russian draggers in the area, who insisted that Eddie keep entertaining.

Eddie then moved to Ottawa in 1974, formed an Irish band called, Beggerman, performed

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