Fred Alton Jeffcoat Jr.

Published 5:57 pm Friday, January 19, 2018

Mr. Fred Alton Jeffcoat Jr., 65, a resident of Rutledge, Alabama, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018.  Funeral services for Mr. Jeffcoat were held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 20, from the Chapel of Turners Funeral Home with Brother Dennis Sanders officiating.  Interment followed in Black Rock Cemetery with Turners Funeral Home of Luverne directing.  Mr. Jeffcoat was preceded in death by his father, Fred Alton Jeffcoat Sr.  He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Sherry Kent Jeffcoat, two daughters, Frieda (Jeff) Wilson and Angie (Daryl) Pouncey, four grandchildren, Zack (Kelsey) Wilson, Tanner Pouncey, Bailey Wilson, and Tucker Pouncey, a soon-to-arrive great-grandchild, Taytom Wilson, his mother, Mattie Lula Tompkins Jeffcoat, three sisters, Linda (Robert) Monk, Jo (Byron) Hodge, and Evone (Craig) Kilpatrick, brother, Wesley (Patsy) Jeffcoat, two sisters-in-law, Sharon (Randy) Beasley and Sheila (Jerry) Mills, three brothers-in-law, Larry (Kim) Kent, Donnie Kent, and Ronnie (Joan) Kent, and a host of loving nieces and nephews.  Active pallbearers were Tanner Pouncey, Jeff Wilson, Daryl Pouncey, Joshua Hodge, Ben Kilpatrick, and Brad Jeffcoat.