Ancestrees
Robert (Bob) Leroy COATE
1917 - 1980 (62 years)
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Name Robert (Bob) Leroy COATE [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] Birth 30 Dec 1917 Trenton, Butler, OH, USA 
[3, 4] Gender Male Residence 1950 Hamilton, Butler, Ohio, USA [9] Death 3 Sep 1980 Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, USA [7, 10] Burial 6 Sep 1980 Glen Rest Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin, OH, USA [7] Person ID I11610 Ancestrees Last Modified 7 Sep 2024
Marriage 2 May 1910 Covington, Kenton, KY, USA [11] Family ID F3751 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Jane MUSSELMAN, b. 26 Feb 1920, Middletown, Butler, OH, USA d. 19 Jul 1997, Fort Myers, Lee, FL, USA (Age 77 years) Marriage 3 Sep 1938 Covington, Kenton, KY, Kentucky, USA [10] Family ID F3151 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Sep 2024
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Notes - Bob was born in Middletown and raised in Trenton, Ohio. Bob was remembered by his brother Richard as the "true diplomat of the family. ... he was gentle by nature, and slow to anger. A shrewd business man, he started out in the floor sanding business, but moved to Columbus to go into the home building business. Achieving great success in a short time, he was highly respected by a vast array of friends and business acquaintances. As a boy scout he was elected to join a throng of scouts in a trip to Washington where they would have been greeted by President Roosevelt. The trip was canceled, however, due to a polio outbreak. Bob loved to raise chickens and ducks. When we were kids, Dad constructed a pond in the side yard. What's a pond without ducks? So Bob began raising them to fill the void. We all enjoyed them. However, I'm sure Bob never forgot the day I roasted a couple of his duckling in the oven.
A pre-schooler, my attention span was not all that great. I'd exhausted the poor little things in the pond. Having witnessed what Bob did with the duckling shortly after they were hatched I decided I'd do the same thing to dry them out. I still remember Bob's surprise and outrage at what I'd done. However, given my age and remorse for what I'd done, I was forgiven. ...I never went near his ducklings after that! ...
He married Mary Musselman, his high school sweetheart. Though he was drafted, his tour of duty in the army in World War II was foreshortened due to Mary's health. They were surely proud parents of Caroline and Donny. Caroline, as you know died shortly after her father passed.
One thing Betty and I recall with fond memories - Warren and Bob bought a farm somewhere northeast of Columbus. Warren could tell you where it was located. The pre-Civil war log house was situated on 165 acres of pure bliss. The Coate family used it for reunions until it was sold. So when I look at the photo of the farmhouse, I'm always reminded of the good times! You probably remember it!" With great fondness, I and my uncles and family that met there on many occasions certainly do remember it.
According to Bob's brothers, Warren and Richard, Bob's death was due to a reaction to the type of anesthesia that was administered during a gall bladder surgery compounded by previous reactions to his recent dental surgery. His liver was not able to process all of it. (C-1782)
- Bob was born in Middletown and raised in Trenton, Ohio. Bob was remembered by his brother Richard as the "true diplomat of the family. ... he was gentle by nature, and slow to anger. A shrewd business man, he started out in the floor sanding business, but moved to Columbus to go into the home building business. Achieving great success in a short time, he was highly respected by a vast array of friends and business acquaintances. As a boy scout he was elected to join a throng of scouts in a trip to Washington where they would have been greeted by President Roosevelt. The trip was canceled, however, due to a polio outbreak. Bob loved to raise chickens and ducks. When we were kids, Dad constructed a pond in the side yard. What's a pond without ducks? So Bob began raising them to fill the void. We all enjoyed them. However, I'm sure Bob never forgot the day I roasted a couple of his duckling in the oven.
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Sources - [S1975] Mary Jane Musselman Coate interviewed by Linda Coate Dudick via phone call 1985 notes in L. Dudick files. (C-240).
- [S1976] Obituary for Robert L. Coate (The Columbus Dispatch).
- [S64] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc Date:2002 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Madison, Butler, Ohio; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0028; FHL microfilm: 2341488, 1,6224::0.
- [S896] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2010 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Middletown Ward 3, Butler, Ohio; Roll: T625_1352; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 60, 1,6061::0.
- [S268] Albert Pickering Coate and Maude Stevens Family Group Sheet 1982 notes added by Marahelen Fuller and Shirley Coate West.
- [S149] Albert Edward Coate Interviewed by daughter, Linda Coate Dudick 198? In L. Dudick files (C-72).
- [S1977] In Memory of Robert L. Coate (Evans Funeral Home, Columbus, Ohio).
- [S1978] Carolyn L. Knasel's Obituary. The Columubus Dispatch Columbus, Oh Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1985.
- [S1534] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;), United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Hamilton, Butler, Oh.
- [S277] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;).
- [S1290] Ancestry.com, Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2016 Place:Lehi, UT, USA;), 1,61372::0.
- [S1975] Mary Jane Musselman Coate interviewed by Linda Coate Dudick via phone call 1985 notes in L. Dudick files. (C-240).