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My friend Dan Coyle was like no other human being I have known: he combined kindness, erudition, and wit in one loving package. I wish the world were full of Dan Coyles.
Steve´s Cousin Sally
August 20, 2025 | Friend


Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Daniel “Dan” Francis Coyle, 76, a resident of William Penn House in Center City, Philadelphia, died peacefully on Wednesday, August 11, 2021, at Penn Hospice at Rittenhouse. Dan was born at St. Agnes Hospital in South Philly and raised in Colwyn in Delaware County. He graduated from West...
Read MoreMy friend Dan Coyle was like no other human being I have known: he combined kindness, erudition, and wit in one loving package. I wish the world were full of Dan Coyles.
Steve´s Cousin Sally
August 20, 2025 | Friend
To this day, I still wish I would have found you sooner so we could have caught up, you could have met my sons and known what a huge influence you were in my life. I think of you often whenever I read Shel Silverstein to my youngest son and talk about how I came to know his works. You are missed.
Nicole McPherson Colledge
August 20, 2024 | School
Still missing you, my wonderful friend. Sally B.
Sally Brett
August 20, 2024 | Friend
A year on and my heart still aches from not getting the chance to see you again as an adult. Thinking of you and your family always.
Nicole McPherson-Colledge
August 20, 2022

Goodbye, dear friend.
Sally Brett (Lynch cousin)
September 28, 2021 | Friend

Group of 10 Memorial Trees
Sally Brett (Lynch cousin)
September 24, 2021 | Falls Church, VA
46. YEARS FROM NOW (Every Thing On It) Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing-and I smile -Shel Silverstein Thank you Mr. Coyle for teaching me my ABC´s and 123s...but also for teaching us that there is a whole other world inside our imaginations. My favorite part of every day was finishing our work and cleaning up so you would read Shel Silverstein to us or let us watch you create BEAUTIFUL models of...
Nicole McPherson-Colledge
August 28, 2021 | School
Please accept my deepest sympathy to the Coyle Family for the loss of your loved one, Daniel Francis, "Dan", and pray God gives you comfort, peace and strength.
Jo H.
August 28, 2021
Mr Coyle was one of my enrichment class teachers. I remember him as very funny and kind. My condolences to all of his loved ones. I'm grateful to have known him.
Kelley Day
August 28, 2021