Topic: Last World War I Veteran In Ohio Dies

San Diego Union-Tribune
December 21, 2007 By Associated Press
The last World War I veteran in Ohio, and one of only three known remaining U.S. veterans of the conflict, has died.
J. Russell Coffey was the last WWI vet in the state, according to the Veterans Affairs Department. He died yesterday at the age of 109, said the Smith-Crates Funeral Home, which did not list a cause of death.
Born Sept. 1, 1898, Coffey did not see action overseas. He enlisted in the Army as a student at Ohio State University in October 1918, a month before the Allied powers and Germany signed a cease-fire agreement.
The other known surviving U.S. soldiers are Frank Buckles, 106, of Charles Town, W.Va., and Harry Landis, 108, of Sun City Center, Fla., according to Veterans Affairs.
-- Associated Press