Brief Life History of Don Gene
When Don Gene Coates was born on 17 July 1923, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Clyde Luther Coates, was 34 and his mother, Fannie Ferris, was 32. He married Ruby Kirchhoff on 20 December 1945, in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States. He lived in Arkansas, United States in 2002 and Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States in 2009. He died on 15 September 2011, in Glenwood, Pike, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Glenwood, Pike, Arkansas, United States.
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- Don G Coates, "United States 1950 Census"
- Don Coates, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Don Coates, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1928 · The Tower Theater
The Tower Theatre is a historic film theater operated by the Salt Lake Film Society. The theater presents independent films and is a venue for the Sundance Film Festival. It also presents classic films on occasional weekends and hosts a movie-rental library for those that want to expand their cinematic knowledge.
1947 · The Presidential Succession Act
The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Coates, for example in Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Sussex, and Wiltshire; Cotes in Leicestershire or Staffordshire; or possibly from Coat in Somerset, Cote in Oxford and Yorkshire, with excrescent -s; or possibly from any of numerous other places similarly named from the new Middle English plural form cotes of Old English cot (plural cotu) ‘cottage’, also ‘shelter’, and sometimes ‘woodman's hut’. It is possible that some bearers may be from a place whose current name is from the dative plural form of this word, cotum, for example Coatham (Durham) or Cottam, Cotham (Nottinghamshire), or from the plural of the related weak noun cote, plural coten. Cotham (Nottinghamshire) is early recorded as Cotes, and Coton (Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire) have many similar spellings. See also Coate . There are very small places in Midlothian, East Lothian, and Fife called Coates, but the surname seems rarely if ever to be Scottish in origin.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kotz or perhaps German Koths .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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