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                                            Please keep our Gateway Center family and the Jennie Stanley family in your prayers as we all lost such a special lady yesterday. 🤍                                        
                                    
                                                                        
                                        Jennie Lou Coffey Stanley, age 85, of Somerset, passed away on Thursday, August 24, 2023 at her residence.  Jennie Lou was born on August 11, 1938 to Alton Coffey and Cloria Coffey at Oneida, TN.    She was married to Charles Richard Stanley in 1957 and they shared 61 years of marriage prior to his passing on April 23, 2019. Jennie was a friend to many…. she loved her church and was faithful to the Women’s Ministries. She loved her family, she was a passionate member of Somerset Democratic Women’s Club and a dedicated supporter of Somerset Business and Professional Womens Club.  You may have shared delicious meals, as well as conversations with Jennie Lou, at Holiday Restaurant where she owned and worked for several years.
Jennie is survived by her granddaughters, Jennie Elizabeth “Beth” Stanley; and Rebecca Ann “Becky” Stanley Spradlin and her husband, Keith; and  great-grandchildren, Hayden Vaught and Lorelei Spradlin, and one nephew Jerry Wade Phillips of Knoxville, TN.
Along with her parents and her husband Charles Richard Stanley, she was preceded in death by her son, Charles (Rick) Richard Stanley, Jr.; and her daughter, Stacy Ann Stanley Weaver and her siblings.
Visitation for Jennie Lou Stanley will be held on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm          at Lake Cumberland Funeral Home, 1046 West Hwy 80, Somerset, KY  42501.
The funeral service will follow at the Chapel of Lake Cumberland Funeral on August 30, 2023 at 1:00 pm with Reverend Christina Brannock officiating.  
Inurnment will be at Mill Springs National Cemetery on Friday, September 1, 2023 at 1:30 pm.
You are welcome to view the obituary and offer condolences to the family at our website:  www.LakeCumberlandFuneralHome.com 
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that expressions of sympathy be made to  Somerset Democratic Womens Club, Somerset BPW or Hospice of Lake Cumberland in memory of Jennie Lou Stanley. Donations can be made payable to Lake Cumberland Funeral Home at P.O. Box 1441, Somerset, KY  42502.    
Lake Cumberland Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements for Jennie Lou Stanley.