Wasco-Sherman County OR Archives Obituaries.....Coats, Chester "Chet" Claud October 19, 2005
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The Dalles Chronicle, October 21, 2005
     Chester “Chet” Claud Coats, 89, a former resident of Wasco, died at a 
local care facility on Oct. 19, 2005.
     He was born June 22, 1916, in Rufus, the oldest of eight children to 
Claud Edmund and Mary Ellen “Ella” (Clark) Coats.
     He graduated from Rufus High School in 1933 at age 16. He attended 
Willamette University and Oregon Agricultural College. He served in the U.S. 
Army Air Force from Oct. 1, 1941 to Oct. 27, 1945. He spent two years 
stationed stateside learning and then teaching radio code and then was 
stationed for two years in the South Pacific.
     He married Reatha Sayrs on Oct. 10, 1942 in Chicago, where he was 
stationed at the time. He returned to Sherman County following discharge from 
the service, and was a wheat farmer from 1946 to 1983. He lived in Wasco from 
1946 to 2005, was a member of the Wasco School Board, Sherman Co-op Board, 
Intermediate Education District Board, was a volunteer for the Sherman County 
Historical Society for many years, and was instrumental in cataloging their 
museum photography collection. He loved flying and earned his pilot’s license 
in the 1950s, loved to travel, was an avid photographer, and participated in 
many shows and displays. He enjoyed attending Air Force Reunions and spending 
time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren and loved his wife’s 
gooseberry pie.
     He is survived by his wife, Reatha Coats, The Dalles; his two sons, Tom 
Coats and his wife Karen, The Dalles; Don Coats and his wife Brenda, The 
Dalles; his three daughters, Mary Macnab and her husband Bo, Wasco; Pat 
Jacobsen and her husband Erling, Rufus; Margie Stovall and her husband Eric, 
The Dalles; grandchildren, Christopher Conlee, Jill Harrison, Paula Costanzo, 
Callie and Piper Macnab, Meghan McAllister and John Coats, Sol Jacobsen and 
Sarah Cerallo, Graham, Mason and Vanessa Coats, Brandon and Cameron Ferguson, 
Lael Erickson, Jesse, Riley and Emily Stovall; 9 great-grandchildren; his 
three sisters, Lois Haskell, McMinnville; Nell Melzer, Moro; and Mary Eakin, 
The Dalles; numerous nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
     He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, Anne Beck, Ida 
Rutschman; two brothers Jim Coats and Bill Coats.
     Memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., on Saturday, Oct. 22, at the 
Wasco United Methodist Church, Wasco. Luncheon will be provided following the 
service. Private cremation was held at Win-Quatt Crematory in The Dalles.      
Private burial (of cremains) will be at a later date at Wasco Sunrise 
Cemetery. Spencer, Libby & Powell Funeral Home in care of arrangements.
     Memorials may be made to Sherman County Historical Society, PO Box 173, 
Moro, OR 97039. 


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Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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