Ancestrees
Warren Floyd COATE
1924 - 2014 (90 years)
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Name Warren Floyd COATE [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] Birth 26 Apr 1924 Trenton, Butler, OH, USA 
[6, 7] Gender Male Death 24 Dec 2014 Mt. Carmel East Hospital, Columbus, Franklin, OH, USA [8] Person ID I11974 Ancestrees Last Modified 29 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 [9] Family ID F3751 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Helen Elizabeth SCHENCK, b. 12 Oct 1920, Trenton, Butler, OH, USA d. 5 Sep 2002, Hospice, Newark, , OH, USA (Age 81 years) Marriage 20 Aug 1948 Children 1. Warren Eugene COATE [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. Wendy Lee COATE [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F3363 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Sep 2024
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Notes - Warren was in some of the worst battles in World War II. For most of his life, he could not bring himself to discuss the war at all. Reunions with old war buddies eventually helped him open up on the subject. He was one of 9 who survit of 125 men in Hurtingken Forest. He was in the Utah Beach invasion, 8th Infantry/ 4th Division under Sgt. Dagastina. He was at Omaha Beach eleven days after D-Day and saw all the tanks and trucks languishing in the water from the orginal battle. He was at the liberation of Paris where he had his first taste of champaigne. Crowds of thousands were throwing flowers and tomatoes as thanks. Women were throwing themselves on the soldiers. Half of his division went AWOL for up to a week there was so much celebrating going on. As they left town, the celebrating throngs of people thinned out. As the third plattoon passed, they were attacked and 33 more men died. His plattoon was the last to pass. They were fighting the Germans and pushing them back as they went. His regiment took Orley Fields outside of Paris. Some of the incindental stories he related was his remembrance of the cans of celery soup that heated themselves when you opened them with phosphorous. When they entered the town of Schubers, the soldiers were given cigarettes and chocolate to throw up to the residents to let them know the Americans had arrived and the Germans were gone. He received hearing damage on about July 24th when they had captured some Germans. There were so few men left, that they had 1 man per fox hole. He was almost shelled when trying to go the restroom. Warren jumped into a ditch to avoid the shells and hit face down into a German latrine. The incident left him with hearing loss.
After the war, Warren attended Ohio State University on the GI Bill as a young man, but dropped out when he married Helen. They were the aunt and uncle on my Dad's side that I was closest to growing up. He was a homebuilder by trade. Years ago, he was a partner with his brother, Bob Coate. I believe their business was called Bob Coate Builders. I have a flyer from his current business, Coate Homes, North Carolina., in the Coate document file. They taught my father this business when we moved from Fairfield, Ohio to Columbus. (C-537, 1779, 2457)
- Warren was in some of the worst battles in World War II. For most of his life, he could not bring himself to discuss the war at all. Reunions with old war buddies eventually helped him open up on the subject. He was one of 9 who survit of 125 men in Hurtingken Forest. He was in the Utah Beach invasion, 8th Infantry/ 4th Division under Sgt. Dagastina. He was at Omaha Beach eleven days after D-Day and saw all the tanks and trucks languishing in the water from the orginal battle. He was at the liberation of Paris where he had his first taste of champaigne. Crowds of thousands were throwing flowers and tomatoes as thanks. Women were throwing themselves on the soldiers. Half of his division went AWOL for up to a week there was so much celebrating going on. As they left town, the celebrating throngs of people thinned out. As the third plattoon passed, they were attacked and 33 more men died. His plattoon was the last to pass. They were fighting the Germans and pushing them back as they went. His regiment took Orley Fields outside of Paris. Some of the incindental stories he related was his remembrance of the cans of celery soup that heated themselves when you opened them with phosphorous. When they entered the town of Schubers, the soldiers were given cigarettes and chocolate to throw up to the residents to let them know the Americans had arrived and the Germans were gone. He received hearing damage on about July 24th when they had captured some Germans. There were so few men left, that they had 1 man per fox hole. He was almost shelled when trying to go the restroom. Warren jumped into a ditch to avoid the shells and hit face down into a German latrine. The incident left him with hearing loss.
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Sources - [S2012] 1940 U.S. census, Digital images (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T627.
- [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).
- [S2271] Coate, Helen interviewed by Linda Coate Dudick 198? In L. Dudick files.
- [S2272] Coate, Warren, Interview by Linda Coate, his niece (ca 2000).
- [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.
- [S893] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2012 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Trenton, Butler, Ohio; Roll: m-t0627-03034; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 9-50, 1,2442::0.
- [S2273] Evans Funeral Home.Coate, Wendy, Privately held by Linda J. Coate, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Columbus, OH. 43220.
- [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.
- [S2012] 1940 U.S. census, Digital images (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T627.