Robert (Bob) Leroy COATE

1917 - 1980  (62 years)

• 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	30 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Albert Pickering COATE, *,   b. 12 Oct 1887, Ludlow Falls, Miami, OH, USA d. 2 Jun 1941, Trenton, Butler, OH, USA (Age 53 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Maud STEVENS,   b. 14 May 1892, Dayton, Montgomery, OH, USA d. 27 Mar 1982, Columbus, Franklin, OH (Age 89 years)
  Relationship	natural
  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]
  Children	1. Carolyn Louise COATE,   b. 15 Jul 1942, Middletown, Butler, OH, USA d. 19 Feb 1985, Whitehall, Franklin, Ohio, USA (Age 42 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Donald Eugene COATE
  Family ID	F3151	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Bob Coate
  		Robert L Coate funeral card 1980
  		Robert L Coate Obit
  		Robert L and Mary J (Musselman) Coate_marker

  
  

• 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)

  
  

• 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. 1950 United States Federal Census [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.