Gwendolyn Rae Russell McCoy ”1949 - 2025”

Gwendolyn Rae Russell McCoy

Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again! Henry Scott-Holland

Gwendolyn Rae Russell McCoy Gwendolyn Rae Russell McCoy of Baxter Springs, KS passed from this life Sunday, November 9, 2025 at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, MO. She was 76. Gwen was born May 30, 1949 in Jones Mill, AR to Raymond and Janelle (Wilson) Russell. She had lived in the Baxter Springs - Treece, KS area since 1993, moving from Picher, OK. Gwen served in the United States Navy during Vietnam, being stationed at Corpus Christi, TX. She was a homemaker and a member of Cardin Baptist Church, east of Miami, OK. She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Danny Russell. Gwen is survived by her husband, Gary McCoy of the home, 2 sons, James Patrick McCoy and his wife Melissa of Lawrence, KS and Brian McCoy and his wife Paula of Baxter Springs, KS, 8 grandchildren and 1 great-grandson. Arrangement placed in the care of Paul Thomas Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Miami, OK. Online condolences may be made at www.paulthomasfuneralhomes.com Resource: www.paulthomasfuneralhomes.com

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