Dawson County NeArchives Obituaries.....Coad, Donald L. January 27, 2010
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Lexington Clipper-Herald Jan. 30, 2010
Donald L. Coad, 87, of Lexington, died Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, at Park 
Avenue Estates in Lexington. 
 
Services will be held Monday, Feb. 1, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. at Lexington 
Christian Church with the Revs. K.C. BeDunnah and Jim Henry officiating.   
 
Burial with Military Honors and Eastern Star Rites will be in the Greenwood 
Cemetery at Lexington.  
 
Visitation will be held Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, from 3-6 p.m. at the Reynolds-
Love Chapel in Lexington.  

Don was born April 30, 1922, in rural Cawker City, Kan., to Edgar F. and Grace 
(Wise) Coad, the second of six children.  The family moved to a farm at 
Auburn, March 1, 1933.  He worked at the (Golden Rule) J.C. Penney Store part-
time while going to Auburn High School.  After graduation in 1939, Don worked 
at J.C. Penney, working his way up to assistant manager.  While working at 
Penney’s he met Betty J. Noyes and they were married March 22, 1942 at 
Auburn.  He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in October 1942, during World War 
II, and was honorably discharged in December 1945 and went to work for the 
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Falls City. 

In September 1956, he and Betty purchased the Morgan Oil Service Station in 
Lexington, operating it until October 1977.  He worked for Hodges Chevrolet 
for a short time and then sold insurance and operated the Greyhound Bus Depot 
in the old Lexington Hotel until he retired in 2002. 
  
Don and Betty celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on March 22, 1992.  He 
was an active member of the First Christian Church of Lexington for 50 plus 
years.  He belonged to Thistle Lodge No. 61, AF and AM, Masons, Dawson Chapter 
No. 33, Order of the Eastern Star, serving as Worthy Grand Patron of Nebraska 
in 1972 and 73; he helped reorganize the DeMolay Chapter and served as DeMolay 
Dad for several years.  He was also a member of Kiwanis, Rotary and was active 
in Boy Scouts.   

Survivors include his son, Don W. Coad of Aylett, Va.; two daughters,  Judy 
(Ron) Linden of Lexington, Sue Houdesheldt of North Platte; three 
grandchildren,  Beverly (Mark) Lowell of Deer Trail, Colo.; Barry Linden and 
fiancée, Diane Feliciano of Olathe, Kan., Travis Coad of Radford, Va.; six 
great-grandchildren, Morgan Lowell, Austin Lowell, Abbi Lowell, Amber Linden, 
Jake Linden and Beckett Linden; one brother,  Merwin Coad of Hollywood, Fla.., 
and two sisters, Marilyn Grafe of Grand Junction, Colo., and  Barbara Whitman 
of Evart, Mich.  
 
Don was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Betty in 1997; son-in-law, 
George Houdesheldt in 2006; sister, Dorine; brother, Duane; brothers-in-law, 
Harold Grafe and Richard Whitman, and nephew, James Coad.


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