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Ruby Pearl Dunn Coates

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Birth	:	25 Oct 1888 Fillmore County, Minnesota, USA
Death	:	9 Mar 1971 Whitefish, Flathead County, Montana, USA
Burial	:	Platte City Cemetery, Platte, Charles Mix County, USA
Coordinate	:	43.3981018, -98.8394012
Plot	:	East Side: Block 4, Lot 81, Grave 8
Description	:	Obituary printed in "The Platte Enterprise" - Mrs. Rubie Coates, an early day schoolteacher and long time resident of the Academy area, died at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Mont., March 9 at the age of 82. Services for Mrs. Coates were held Saturday, March 13, at 2 p.m. at Olive Presbyterian Church in Platte with Adolph Johnson officiating. Ruth Siddons was organist and Reta Cole was soloist. Casket bearers were Gale Graves, Floyd Dimick, Verald Schubert, Gene Fite, Belvin Gillings and Don Nachtigal. Honorary bearers were Elmer Gillings, Les Fite, Hiram Dimick, Cesaire Turgeon, Atlee Schubert, and... Read More	Obituary printed in "The Platte Enterprise" - Mrs. Rubie Coates, an early day schoolteacher and long time resident of the Academy area, died at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Mont., March 9 at the age of 82. Services for Mrs. Coates were held Saturday, March 13, at 2 p.m. at Olive Presbyterian Church in Platte with Adolph Johnson officiating. Ruth Siddons was organist and Reta Cole was soloist. Casket bearers were Gale Graves, Floyd Dimick, Verald Schubert, Gene Fite, Belvin Gillings and Don Nachtigal. Honorary bearers were Elmer Gillings, Les Fite, Hiram Dimick, Cesaire Turgeon, Atlee Schubert, and Duane Parish. Interment was in Platte City Cemetery with Cool Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Coates was born to William Henry Dunn and Henrietta Duxbury Oct. 25, 1888 in Fillmore Co., Minn. Her early childhood was spent in Minnesota and McCook Co., S.D. At an early age she joined her mother, brother and sister in proving up a claim in Lyman Co.,S.D. She returned to Harmony, Minn., to comple te her high school education. After meeting the requirements for a teacher's certificate by successful completion of an examination in her senior year of high school, she began her teaching career in one room schools near Harmony, Minn. Coming to Charles Mix County about 1912 with her sister, Mrs. Merna Stoltenberg, she taught near Ravinia, Platte, and in La Roche Township. Her marriage to Giffin Coates June 13, 1919, in Chamberlain ended a teaching career of nearly ten years. They established their home at the Coates homestead two miles west of Academy where they reared and educated two daughters and one son. It was here they lived for more than 25 years, during which time they managed to survive the depression and dust bowl years while caring for their children and carrying the farm through to better times. Leaving the old farm home in 1946, they had their only vacation while traveling a short time in a trailer house in the southern United States, Mexico and ancestral homes near Dixon, Ill., Harmony, Minn., and Sumner, Wash. They also visited Yellowstone and daughter, Doris, and family in Montana. In Sumner, Wash., they established a home while their youngest daughter, Marilyn, completed high school and college. When Giffin died in 1950, she made her home with her children. During the 1950's she spent intervals with her son while he was employed as government engineer in McCook, Neb., and Big Bend National Park in Texas. She spent her last years in her apartment in Columbia Falls, Mont. near the home of her daughter, Doris. She was the last of her family. In death she now joins her mother, father, sister Merna, and broher Wallace, husband Giffin, and grandaughter Kathryn Forkin. She is survived by Mr. and Mrs. Jerrol Coates, Ferron, Utah; Mr. and Mrs. James (Doris) Forkin, Columbia Falls,Mont., Mr. and Mrs. James (Marilyn) Cox of Los Altos, Cal., and her four grandsons, Fredrick Wayne Forkin, Daniel Paul and Dale Jonathan Cox, and Joseph Giffin Coates, as well as friends and relatives in South Dakota, Montana, Washington, California and Minnesota. Thank You We wish to express our deepest thanks to Adolph Johnson and the many helpful friends in the community who gave their time and energy to comfort us in our time of loss.--The Family of Rubie Coates

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Ruby Pearl Dunn Coates's memorial is located at: Platte City Cemetery, Platte, Charles Mix County, USA.
When did Ruby Pearl Dunn Coates death?
Ruby Pearl Dunn Coates death on 9 Mar 1971 in Whitefish, Flathead County, Montana, USA
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Latitude: 43.3981018
Longitude: -98.8394012

Family Members:

Parent

Henrietta Duxbury Humphries

(1864 - 1936)

Spouse

James Giffen Coates

(1893 - 1950)

Siblings

Wallace Harvey Dunn

(1884 - 1943)

Children

Doris Coates Forkin

(1922 - 2012)

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Platte, Charles Mix County, USA
Coordinate: 43.3981018, -98.8394012

2. Saint Peter Catholic Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.3983002, -98.8253021

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7. Bloomington Church Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.3384600, -98.7660800

8. Friesland Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.3171997, -98.9041977

9. Platte Valley Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.3046940, -98.7640000

10. Jasper Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.2838300, -98.7550700

11. Lake George Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.4693985, -98.9938965

12. Morningside Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.3588982, -98.6539001

13. West Trinity Lutheran Church
Charles Mix County, USA
Coordinate: 43.3713000, -99.0430000

14. Stavanger Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.5465570, -98.8833050

15. Pleasant Grove Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.5442009, -98.9122009

16. Old Dunlap Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.5572570, -98.8137820

17. Torrey Lake Lutheran Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.5594960, -98.8474270

18. Larson Cemetery
Brule County, USA
Coordinate: 43.5625000, -98.8503036

19. Gabrielson Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.5600014, -98.8814011

20. Oldham Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.3001500, -99.0253800

21. New Holland Cemetery
Douglas County, USA
Coordinate: 43.4207993, -98.5986023

22. Saint Ann's Cemetery
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Coordinate: 43.2419014, -98.6893997

23. Pleasant Lawn Cemetery
Geddes, Charles Mix County, USA
Coordinate: 43.2419014, -98.6875000

24. Saint Ann's Catholic Cemetery
Geddes, Charles Mix County, USA
Coordinate: 43.2090000, -98.7262000