Steve Lenhart Coker, Jr.

Steve Lenhart Coker, Jr. passed away on June 24, 2024 at Christus Mother Frances Hospital.

Steve was born in Pearsall, TX where he grew up working in the family grocery store until they moved to Dallas at the age of 14.  He graduated from Bryan Adams High School and attended East Texas State University.  He then went with his cousin, Chey Coker, to Alaska where they worked for Wien Air Alaska, Wally Hinkel’s governor campaign, and maintained a combination Dahl sheep camp and gold mine on Lake Chandalar in the Brooks Range.  Over his lifetime he started many successful businesses from Steve’s Potatoes to Coker Enterprises.  From childhood, he had a deep love of flying.  He got his pilot’s license in 1968 and, over the years, flew all over the country, including Alaska.  Very few weekends went by without flying somewhere.  He helped develop Kay Ranch airport, fondly known as “the farm”.  He loved entertaining there with family and friends, cooking and giving airplane rides.

He is preceded in death by his father, Steve Coker, Sr., his mother Frances Coker, and sister Kathy Dooley as well as other family members.

He is survived by his wife, Sally Coker, children Steve Coker III and wife Misty and daughter Janie Pritchard and husband Geoff as well as his grandchildren Steve Coker IV, William Coker, Grant Pritchard, Sarah Pritchard, and other family members.

Visitation will be held Friday, June 28th at Jackson’s Burks Walker Tippit from 5:30-7:30 pm.  The funeral service will be held at Marvin Methodist Church on Saturday, June 29th at 2:00 pm with reception to follow and family burial after.  Dr. Doug Baker and Dr. Tommy Williams will be officiating.