May God bless you and your...
I think about you so often, my dear friend.
Bob Ritter
May 15, 2020 | Alamo, CA | Friend
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Don Coates
Naples, Florida
1935 - 2017
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DIED
May 16, 2017
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Naples, Florida
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Send FlowersDon CoatesNaples, FLDon Coates of Naples, a 25-year resident of SW Florida, died on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at Avow Hospice in Naples with his wife and daughter at his side. He was 82 and had received severe injuries in a fall a week earlier.In Florida, Mr. Coates, who had a 30-year career as a New...
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Don was my best friend at Williams College. He and I both played in the Spring Street Stompers, a Dixieland Jazz Band that, in the mid-1950s, appeared in Carnegie Hall in New York, the Tonight show hosted by Steve Allen. We also won the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout Show, the #1 rated TV show (CBS) at the time. We referred to Don as as "fiifty fingers".
Don and I couldn't have lived farther away from each other, him in Florida and me in the San Francisco area, but we saw each other...
Bob Ritter
September 18, 2017 | Alamo, CA
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Peace be with you.
Sandy Mason
May 21, 2017 | Naples, FL
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My deepest sympathy to the Coates family .
Sandy Mason, Avow volunteer.
Sandy Mason
May 21, 2017 | Naples, FL
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Don Coates
We enjoyed the talents of Don Coates for so many years, here in Naples, including a Brown family celebration, in which he shared his skillful talents on the piano. He was the consummate jazz musician & gentleman to all. We're sorry to hear that his family and the world has lost his positive and joyful contributions!
Peg Brown
May 21, 2017 | Naples, FL
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