Nita Coffman St. Ann; Food Services Worker

Nita Coffman St. Ann of Oxnard, a retired food services employee for Camarillo State Hospital, died Friday in a hospital following a brief illness. She was 58.

St. Ann was born June 30, 1939, in Branch, Ark., and lived in Oxnard for 52 years.

She and her husband, Adam, were wed Nov. 23, 1963. They had planned to be married the day before, but had to postpone the ceremony because of the assassination of President Kennedy, said her mother, Ina Coffman of Oxnard.

“We all went to Vegas and they were supposed to get married that day,” Coffman said. “But Kennedy was assassinated, and everything closed. So, they had to do it the next day.”

The couple had no children.

St. Ann worked for eight years in the state hospital canteen before retiring in the early 1990s.

For the past year, she had been a volunteer at the Tender Life Maternity House in Ventura.

“She was my baby,” Coffman said. “She’s missed very, very much.”

In addition to her mother and husband, St. Ann is survived by a brother, Bill, of Ojai.

She was preceded in death by her father, U.B., and a brother, Robert.

Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel of James A. Reardon Mortuary, Oxnard.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Reardon Chapel.

Burial will follow in Ivy Lawn Memorial Park, Ventura.