Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Coates, Robert Walter   July 7, 1949
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot July 8, 1949

              R. W. COATES DIES; BUSINESS, CIVIC OFFICIAL

        Was Membership Secretary Of Commerce Association Prior to Illness

Robert Walter Coates, 68, membership secretary of the Norfolk Association of 
Commerce until he was taken ill last September, died last night at 9:40 o'clock 
at a hospital.
Before joining the Commerce Association in October, 1942, he was connected with 
the Northwestern Life Insurance Company for 16 years. He was in the shoe 
business from 1910 to 1926.
A native of Richmond County, he had resided in Norfolk for the past 60 years and 
was active in community and civic affairs.
He was past president of both the Retail Merchants Association and the Kiwanis 
Club. He was also a member of Atlantic Lodge No. 3, A.F. & A.M.
The son of the late Robert W. and Virginia Coates, he was educated in the 
Norfolk public schools.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Aubrey H. Thompson, of Richmond; two sons, 
Robert W. Coates, Jr., of Bradenton, Fla. and James R. Coates, of Norfolk and 
three grandchildren. 
The body was taken to the Cox Funeral Home.


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