Tarboro
Cleo Marie Biddle Marie Biddle Coonfare
1943 — 2020
TARBORO - Cleo Marie Biddle Coonfare, age 76, passed away at home surrounded by her loving family on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Born in Portage, WI on October 1, 1943, she was the daughter of the late Lt. Col. Donald William Biddle and Viola Evelyn Dryer Biddle. She was also preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Wayne Gary Coonfare. Cleo grew up the daughter of an Army Colonel traveling from station to station. She met Wayne while he was serving in the United States Air Force at Beale Air Force base in Marysville, CA. In 1961, they were married in Coquille, OR. The couple settled and raised their children in Oakland, OR. In 1982, they relocated near family in the Coos Bay...
