Virginia Brightwell

1917 - 2002  (85 years)

• Name	Virginia Brightwell  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	26 Feb 1917	Wheelersburg, Scioto, Ohio, USA   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1950	Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, USA   [3]
  	Relation to Head of House: Wife; Marital Status: Married
  Death	16 May 2002	Columbus, Franklin, OH, USA   [4]
  Burial	20 May 2002	Blendon Central Cemetery, Westerville, Franklin, OH, USA
  Person ID	I10937	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family	Benjamin Dimmack Coate,   b. 5 Feb 1916, Piqua, Miami, OH, USA d. 26 Mar 2000, Worthington, Franklin, OH, USA (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1941
  Children	1. Living Coate  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Living Coate  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3080	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Virginia attended Randolph Maco College and graduated from Ohio State University in 1938. She was a teacher for three years at the Junior High level in Laurelville, Ohio. After she married, she worked in partnership with her husband in Cloor Company and Formitex Plastic Fabricators. She was a member of the East Columbus Lions Club Auxiliary and a P.T.A. President at Shepherd Elementary School as well as a founding member to St. Andrew Christian Church. I will fondly remember her request to have Louis Armstrong's rendition of "Oh When the Saints Go Marching In" played at her funeral.

  
  

• Sources

  [S267] Albert Edward Coate Interviewed by daughter, Linda Coate Dudick 198? In L. Dudick files (C-72). [S1773] Obituary for Virginia Brightwell Coate (Columbus Dispatch, Sat., May 18, 2002). [S240] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;), National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: Columbus, Franklin, Ohio; Roll: 4938; Enumeration District: 94-162. [S2723] Funeral Card for Virginia Coate.