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DATE: Saturday, December 31, 1994            TAG: 9412310239
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: INVERNESS, FLA.                    LENGTH: Short :   31 lines

HOWARD F. COE

Howard F. Coe, age 69 years, of Inverness, passed away Wednesday, December 28, 1994.

He was born in Holbrook, Massachusetts, and came to Inverness 16 years ago from Pittsburgh, Pa. He lived in Virginia Beach from 1945-1965. Mr. Coe was a retired Director of U.S. Customs; a member of Beverly Hills Community Church; life member of DAV; member of VFW Post (NU)4337, Inverness; and the Masonic Lodge, Pittsburgh.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ginni Coe, Inverness; two sons, Mr. Howard Coe, Salinas, Calif., Mr. Stephen Coe, Trinity, N.C.; two daughters, Mrs. Carolyn Fountaine, Pepperall, Mass.; Mrs. Elizabeth Ball, Virginia Beach, Va.; a brother, Mr. Alfred Coe, Newtown, N.C.; four sisters, Mrs. Jane Bowker, Inverness, Mrs. Pauline McNiff, Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Joanne Atkinson, Johnston, R.I., Mrs. Priscilla Davis, Hanford, Calif.; and six grandchildren.

The Service of Remembrance will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, January 3, 1995, at the Beverly Hills Community Church with Rev. Bill Hand and Rev. Bob Roberts officiating. Cremation will be at Hooper Crematory, Inverness. Friends, who wish, may make memorial donations to the Hymnal Fund, Beverly Hills Community Church or the Hernando Seventh Day Adventist Church.

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