Richard Eugene Coate

1926 - 2020  (94 years)

• Name	Richard Eugene Coate  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
  Birth	6 Feb 1926	Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, United States of America   [2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1935	Trenton, Butler, Ohio   [9]
  Residence	1940	Madison, Trenton, Butler, Ohio, USA   [9]
  	Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
  Death	19 Apr 2020	, , New York, USA
  Burial	Middletown, Butler County, Ohio, United States of America   [4, 11]
  Person ID	I10656	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Albert Pickering Coate, *,   b. 12 Oct 1887, Ludlow Falls, Miami County, Ohio, United States of America d. 2 Jun 1941, Trenton, Butler County, Ohio, United States of America (Age 53 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Maud Coate, *,   b. 14 May 1892, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA d. 27 Mar 1982, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, USA (Age 89 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	2 May 1910	Covington, Kenton, KY, USA   [13]
  Family ID	F3009	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth (Betty) Louise Scheibert,   b. 31 Jul 1926, Middletown B, Ohio d. 13 Mar 2004, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States of America (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	2 Sep 1950	Franklin, Ohio, USA   [7, 10]
  Children	1. Living Coate  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2940	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

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• Notes

  My Uncle Richard was a most creative soul. He was an actor, playwright, and author throughout his adulthood. He began his love in the drama field as a young child when his mother would take him around to perform in minstrel shows. She would play the piano and he would sing and dance. He later went to acting school and was considered their most promising student. He was once the lead in a Broadway play but otherwise had less prominent parts. He also wrote screenplays that were considered by major Actors at the time. He many fascinating, successful actresses and actors as friends. He was the kind of Uncle we would all brag about. He married his childhood friend, Betty Scheibert. They were an exemplary couple whose love seemed to grow stronger through the years. They lived in New York City for most of their adult lives. Betty was a graphic artist for industrial applications. She had had polio as a child. It left her crippled. It didn't stop her from doing anything. Uncle Richard told me often about the time she climbed up a cliff at Highbanks, a park here in Columbus when they were both going to Ohio State University. He was so proud of her. They had a daughter, Jennifer, who became a famous photographer for the March of Dimes. She had the honor of photographing two of our American President's families in the Whitehouse in her career. Uncle Richard was a sensitive soul called into service in the Korean War. He had many after-effects from that service that took him years to heal from. He was a profuse writer to his wife, Betty. He believed these letters were the basis for the long-running T.V. show called "Mash". His silhouette was captured by a photographer in the doorway of a hut in this war that was used by the AP press and published in many national papers. He used this photo as the front cover of an autobiography he published about him and his wife, their families, and the town they grew up in. It's called "The Unidentified Soldier in the USO Poster". It can be purchased at Xlibris.com.

  
  

• Sources

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